by Dave Johnson | Nov 4, 2016 | Blog
The U.S. Census Bureau reported Friday that the September trade deficit fell to an enormous, humgonous $36.4 billion, down $4.0 billion from and even more enormous and humongous $40.5 billion in August. This does not represent a boom in job (and wealth)-creating...
by Jeff Bryant | Nov 4, 2016 | Blog
The following was published at The Progressive. Recently, four major national newspapers published editorials criticizing the NAACP's call for a moratorium on charter schools. Bowing to the influence of the powerful charter PR machine, the editorial boards of the...
by Ellicot Dandy | Nov 4, 2016 | Blog
The climate crisis is upon us. Year after year, we break records for heat, droughts and extreme weather. Super storms like Katrina and Sandy have devastated communities and left thousands homeless years later. Already we have our first climate refugees as rising seas...
by Richard Eskow | Nov 4, 2016 | Blog
A team of political scientists, writing in the Washington Post, concluded that "Trump supporters who are struggling economically perceive U.S. economic performance overall to be much worse than it actually is." Those voters believed that the unemployment rate is three...
by Robert Borosage | Nov 4, 2016 | Blog
The following was originally published in The Nation As the presidential campaign hobbles through its last dispiriting days, the central concerns of voters are getting lost amid the screech of scandal, real and invented. This election isn’t about Clinton’s “damned...
by Richard Eskow | Nov 3, 2016 | Blog
[fve]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tmOWx6gyMo[/fve] Richard Eskow interviewed "Dee,” an anonymous prison strike leader jailed at an undisclosed facility in the Carolinas The for-profit prison industry is in trouble. Bernie Sanders came out against it in the...
