by Tula Connell | Feb 22, 2008 | Blog, Economy
The union movement is turning green. Not with envy, but with an escalating sense that the nation must work to address climate change and that we must be part of the effort to create good jobs that also are green jobs. Last December, an unprecedented delegation of...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Feb 21, 2008 | Blog, Minimum Wage
You may not agree, as Sara Robinson provocatively suggests, that the country is primed for revolution. But there is no doubt that large numbers of middle-class people are mad, really mad, about the damage Bush-league conservatism has done to the country and to their...
by Sara Robinson | Feb 20, 2008 | Blog, Minimum Wage
"Those who make peaceful evolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable." — John F. Kennedy There's one thing for sure: 2008 isn't anything like politics as usual. The corporate media (with their unerring eye for the obvious point) is fixated on the...
by Terrance Heath | Feb 19, 2008 | Blog
Part One of a series. When George W. Bush first spoke of "the ownership society," he led most Americans to believe, and many did believe, that he was talking about them. Now, four years later, it's easy to conclude that the president, his party and conservatism itself...
by Bill Scher | Feb 18, 2008 | Blog
The Sunday shows strike out again for the Watchdog. Not only did Fox News Sunday's Chris Wallace fail to press Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell on the White House support for immunity for telecom companies that allegedly violated consumer privacy at...
by Roger Hickey | Feb 17, 2008 | Blog
Last week, the Economic Policy Institute released an important analysis of Jacob Hacker’s Health Care for America (HCFA) plan by the respected health economics team at the Lewin Group. As you can read in the EPI press release, Lewin found that HCFA would cover...
