by Isaiah J. Poole | Aug 15, 2008 | Blog
A hearing in late July on the middle-class squeeze by the congressional Joint Economic Committee did not get much attention at the time, but a warning at that hearing by Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., that what's happening to the middle class is not just a squeeze but a...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Aug 14, 2008 | Blog
Somewhat buried in the news this week was a forecast by Global Insight, a U.S. consulting firm, that China would overtake the United States as the leading global manufacturer in 2009. That forecast deserves more attention, because American workers want and need real...
by Bill Scher | Aug 13, 2008 | Blog
Conservatives know that after eight years of keeping America dependent on oil, they can't easily promote another Big Oil giveaway. So the message mantra around coastal drilling is "All of the Above." "All of the Above" is supposed to mean that we need to do...
by Bill Scher | Aug 13, 2008 | Blog
Yesterday, the Bush Justice Department announced there would be no prosecutions for the illegal political hiring that went on the Justice Department (link via Knitting Liberally). And, the Bush Interior Department announced new proposed rules that would eliminate...
by Robert Borosage | Aug 12, 2008 | Blog
Remember the old Steve Martin routine on how to make a million dollars and not pay taxes: "First, make a million dollars... Second, don't pay taxes." Turns out Martin's joke is standard operating procedure for corporations in the United States — only, in comparison,...
by Bill Scher | Aug 12, 2008 | Blog
The Washington Post has a white working class problem. It doesn't know how to analyze its own poll data about them. The Washington Post, July 16, 2008: Among white voters, McCain has an advantage [over Obama] of 50 percent to 42 percent ... The candidates are tied...
