by Isaiah J. Poole | May 18, 2007 | Blog
Do you know how you could eat on just $21 a week? This week, you may have heard about the four members of Congress who have decided to try living on the amount of food they could buy with $21, the average weekly Food Stamp program allotment. One of the members,...
by Bill Scher | May 18, 2007 | Blog
...Congressional leaders tried to cut a deal with the White House on the Iraq bill, offering President Bush the ability to waive -- effectively, ignore -- timetables to redeploy combat troops out of Iraq. The White House rejected the deal as not being a big enough...
by Isaiah J. Poole | May 18, 2007 | Blog
Veteran journalist Bill Moyers is using his PBS show, Bill Moyers' Journal, to raise the public profile of a postal rate change that has been stirring anger in the progressive press for weeks. Earlier this month, the price of a first-class stamp went up two...
by Bill Scher | May 17, 2007 | Blog
Nativist conservatives are in full foam over the new immigration deal,
by Bill Scher | May 17, 2007 | Blog
Blue Climate flags this New York Times article about a study from the economic research arm of management consultant giant McKinsey & Company, backing strong government standards on energy efficiency. Blue Climate makes the common sense point that: "Energy efficiency...
by Bill Scher | May 17, 2007 | Blog
Speakers at the Apollo Summitin Washington earlier this year emphasized the importance of making our buildings energy efficient, slashing carbon emissions and creating hundreds of thousands of good-paying jobs. The Los Angeles chapter of the Apollo Alliance talked...
