by Liz Ryan Murray | Mar 31, 2017 | Blog
A great old Calvin & Hobbes comic strip tells us a lot about the current budget debate. Calvin asks his mom to let him do a succession of ridiculously dangerous things: First he asks if he can set his mattress on fire; his mom says no. Then he asks if he can ride...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 30, 2017 | Blog
Last year Maine voters approved an increase in the minimum wage. After this jobs and wages surged. So business groups are trying to do something about it. And not just in Maine. Maine's Job "Surge" Last year voters approved a Maine ballot initiative raising the...
by Sam Pizzigati | Mar 30, 2017 | Blog
President Donald Trump named Michael Piwowar as acting chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission shortly after his inauguration. Piwowar, one of the SEC’s five commissioners since 2013, quickly flexed his acting chair muscles - on one of the agency’s most...
by Robert Borosage | Mar 30, 2017 | Blog
Roger Wilkins has left us, just after his 85th birthday. A great champion of social justice, proud father and good friend, he will be missed. Born into an educated middle class family, Roger was raised with high expectations. His father, business manager of the Kansas...
by Jordan Estevão | Mar 29, 2017 | Blog
President Donald Trump has used a sweeping executive order to reverse years of government efforts to promote clean air, water and energy. His claim? Environmental protections are bad for jobs. His solution? Windfalls to giant energy and carbon-extraction...
by Leo Gerard | Mar 28, 2017 | Blog
The senator’s question was simple and straightforward: What would you have done? Judge Neil Gorsuch wouldn’t answer. He couldn’t say whether, on orders from an employer, he’d have driven a tractor trailer with locked brakes, endangering the lives of other motorists,...
