by Richard Eskow | Feb 7, 2017 | Blog
For Donald Trump, this has got to hurt: Less than two weeks after his inauguration, the people who took to the streets to protest his policies have outstripped him in popularity. And, given his rich history of "locker room banter" and other sexist comments, it must be...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 7, 2017 | Blog
The United States ran the most enormous, humongous trade deficit last year since 2012. The gap between our exports and imports widened by 0.4 percent to $502.3 billion in 2016, the Census Bureau reported today. The government also found that the trade deficit amounted...
by Leo Gerard | Feb 7, 2017 | Blog
President Donald Trump had Harley-Davidson executives and employees over to lunch at the White House last week and reiterated his promise to end wrong-headed trade policies that enable foreign countries to eat American workers’ lunch. Trump reassured the Harley...
by Jeff Bryant | Feb 7, 2017 | Blog
This is going down to the wire. Senate Democrats, channeling public opposition to Trump's nomination of Betsy DeVos for Secretary of Education while venting their own outrage over her lack of qualifications for the job, are occupying the Senate floor for 24 hours...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 6, 2017 | Blog
The post-inauguration wave of protests is continuing and morphing. Over Super Bowl weekend, some of the biggest took place in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida and Roseville, California. Many of these protests are aimed...
by Sam Pizzigati | Feb 6, 2017 | Blog
Another new study on the devastating impact of the Great Recession — on the middle class — has just come out, this one from the Hudson Institute, a conservative-leaning think tank. America’s richest 10 percent, this latest analysis shows, lost 7 percent of their...
