by Jeff Bryant | Jul 25, 2017 | Blog
“Aren’t you cold?” My hosts waiting for me in front of Millikan High School were wearing full winter wear—dark coats and scarves, knit caps pulled over ears. I’m in shirtsleeves. “No,” I replied. It’s 58 degrees—a February cold wave for them but a nice spring day for...
by Richard Eskow | Jul 24, 2017 | Blog
A heat wave gripped Washington D.C. last week, its bright sun delineating each building's sharp corners with Edward Hopper-like clarity. Commuters waited listlessly for trains and buses, fixed in their moments of misery like flies in amber. If the city seemed like...
by Jessica Juarez Scruggs | Jul 24, 2017 | Blog
It’s Shark Week, but the most dangerous predators this year aren’t on TV or at the beaches – they are in Washington D.C., where they are menacing families with the help of their chums in Congress. From payday loan sharks to Wall Street bottom-feeders, financial...
by Richard Eskow | Jul 21, 2017 | Blog
July 21 marks the six-year anniversary of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which was created in the wake of the Wall Street crime wave that led to the financial crisis of 2008. The CFPB was first conceived by law professor Elizabeth Warren, now Senator Warren...
by Jeff Bryant | Jul 20, 2017 | Blog
In researching an upcoming article I'm writing about the St. Louis school system, and the district's ongoing funding crisis, I came across an astonishing example of who wins and who loses in current approaches to government budget balancing. As a local St. Louis...
by Leo Gerard | Jul 19, 2017 | Blog
Promises were made. And workers believed candidate Donald Trump when he pledged to stop corporations from exporting American factories. Workers cast votes based on Trump swearing he would end the trade cheating that kills American jobs. This week, though, workers got...
