by Dave Johnson | Jul 22, 2015 | Blog, Economy
A "sneak law" attachment to a "must-pass" bill gives sacred Native American land to a foreign mining company. How did this happen? Do you remember that "Citibank budget," where a budget bill to avert an imminent government shutdown suddenly had in it a...
by Robert Reich | Jul 22, 2015 | Blog, Progressive Vision
A new report finds more U.S. children living in poverty than before the Great Recession. According to the report, released Tuesday from the Annie E. Casey Foundation, 22 percent of American children are living in poverty (as of 2013, the latest data available)...
by Bill Scher | Jul 21, 2015 | Blog
Quiz time: Which president said this? I think that some of the people who are objecting the most and just refusing even to accede to the idea of ever getting any understanding, whether they realize it or not, those people, basically, down in their deepest thoughts,...
by Robert Borosage | Jul 21, 2015 | Blog, Financial Reform
Today marks the fifth anniversary of Dodd-Frank, the complicated legislation designed to reform Wall Street after the financial crisis. Five years later, the debate still rages. Republicans denounce the reforms as a failure: “the big banks are bigger, the small banks...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jul 20, 2015 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
[fve]https://vimeo.com/132365752[/fve]Nick Hanauer discusses his worker "shared security" proposal in an interview with OurFuture.org. I have a love-hate relationship with ride-sharing services like Uber and Lyft. I love the convenience and level of service that...
by Robert Reich | Jul 20, 2015 | Blog, Economy, Financial Reform
The Greek debt crisis offers another illustration of Wall Street’s powers of persuasion and predation, although the Street is missing from most accounts. The crisis was exacerbated years ago by a deal with Goldman Sachs, engineered by Goldman’s current CEO, Lloyd...
