by Bill Scher | Jun 12, 2008 | Blog
Earlier this week, I noted that media stars Charlie Gibson and Maria Batriromo have pushed the idea that households earning $200,000 are not wealthy, even though they are in the top 3.5% of the country. This morning, conservative commentator Ben Stein upped the ante,...
by Bill Scher | Jun 12, 2008 | Blog
Both the Obama and McCain campaigns see a need to reach out to Sen. Hillary Clinton's predominantly female hard-core supporters. There is growing pressure on Obama to deliver a speech on sexism as good as his speech on race relations to retain Clinton backers. And...
by Robert Borosage | Jun 12, 2008 | Blog
The appointment of Jason Furman as economic policy director for the Barack Obama presidential campaign has caused a stir. Furman was executive director of the Hamilton Project, a project created by Citibank chair and former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, largely to...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 12, 2008 | Blog
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal is on a path to finish the job Hurricane Katrina started, destroying the public infrastructure that served, however imperfectly, poor and working-class New Orleans residents. Jindal, the young wunderkind who is being touted as...
by Bill Scher | Jun 11, 2008 | Blog
After passing last month a penny-ante compromise bill on energy, Senate leaders finally launched a real confrontation over the direction of our energy policy. And the Senate conservative minority was exposed, as they
by Robert Borosage | Jun 11, 2008 | Blog
Monday in Raleigh, North Carolina, Illinois Sen. Barack Obama opened the general election fight, taking the gloves off against the "tired and misguided [economic] philosophy that has dominated Washington for too long," and offering a clear challenge to the Bush-McCain...
