by Richard Eskow | Apr 2, 2015 | Blog, Education
Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Elijah Cummings, who co-chair an initiative called the Middle Class Prosperity Project, are holding a forum today at the University of Massachusetts in Boston on Tackling the Student Debt Crisis (more info here). If the word “crisis”...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 2, 2015 | Blog
The U.S. Census Bureau reported Thursday that the February goods and services trade deficit was "$35.4 billion in February, down $7.2 billion from $42.7 billion in January, revised." This enormous, humongous level of $35.5 billion drained from the economy in a single...
by Jeff Bryant | Apr 1, 2015 | Blog, Education
To the old saying about “death and taxes,” you can now add another: debt. In fact, in contemporary America, debt is likely becoming at least as all-encompassing as the other two. An increasingly powerful force behind the debt explosion is not what you might expect:...
by Terrance Heath | Apr 1, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism, Progressive Vision
The powerful grassroots backlash against Indiana’s anti-gay “religious freedom” law is yielding results and inspiring hope. Right-wing supporters of the law were seemingly caught unawares by a grassroots response that’s put them on the defensive. On Monday, the...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Mar 31, 2015 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
Leaders of the "fight for $15" movement has set April 15 as the date for a nationwide strike to push for a living wage for all low-wage workers. This movement that started with fast-food workers in 2012 is now expanding to include a whole range of occupations, ranging...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 31, 2015 | Blog, Current Issues, Democracy, Financial Reform
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is supposed to "protect investors." But what happens when a company is dishing the company's cash out to politicians, political parties and political "charities"? Apparently, investors/shareholders don't get to find out...
