by Richard Eskow | May 14, 2015 | Blog, Economy
An NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll recently asked the following question: “Which concerns you more: the income gap between the wealthiest Americans and the rest of the country, or middle and working class Americans not being able to get ahead financially?” If you...
by Bill Scher | May 13, 2015 | Blog, Economy, Progressive Vision
Earlier this week, conservative New York Times columnist David Brooks argued that the re-election of British Prime Minister David Cameron, following the reelection of Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu and the Republican midterm election victory, proves that "the...
by Dave Johnson | May 13, 2015 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
What happened in the Senate Tuesday shows why the corporations are fighting so hard to get the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). A legislative body jumped in and interfered with corporate plans. The nerve of those people! Try to see it from the point of view of the...
by Robert Borosage | May 13, 2015 | Blog, Progressive Vision
On a sunlit lawn in front of the nation’s Capitol yesterday, an impressive array of progressive legislators, union and civil rights leaders and public scholars lined up to sign onto New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s “Progressive Agenda,” a brief platform on income...
by Dave Johnson | May 12, 2015 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
Democrats in the U.S. Senate were able to successfully block the trade promotion authority "fast track" bill using a filibuster today. This is a very big setback for the pro-Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) forces, but is not a final defeat. The final vote was 52-45,...
by Richard Eskow | May 12, 2015 | Blog, Retirement Security
For The Huffington Post's 10th anniversary I was asked to predict what Social Security might look like 10 years from now. That future is filled with both possibility and shadowed by danger. To understand exactly how rich those possibilities are, let's begin by looking...
