by Richard Eskow | Feb 24, 2015 | Blog, Financial Reform
A lone bureaucrat has been fighting the financial industry for years, on an issue that stands at the intersection of two national challenges: investment regulation and retirement security. Along the way she's collected some new and interesting allies. Is that a sign...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 23, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism, Jobs and Growth
This week a new wave of protests is expected in Madison, Wisconsin, in reaction to a sudden new set of anti-worker laws from Governor Walker and the state's Republican leadership. The state's union leadership is asking people to come to the capitol on Tuesday and...
by Robert Reich | Feb 23, 2015 | Blog, Economy, Jobs and Growth
GM is worth around $60 billion, and has over 200,000 employees. Its front-line workers earn from $19 to $28.50 an hour, with benefits. Uber is estimated to be worth some $40 billion, and has 850 employees. Uber also has over 163,000 drivers (as of December – the...
by Bernie Horn | Feb 23, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism
In state legislatures, 2015 is the right wing’s best chance to enact the most extreme legislation. The right now controls more state legislatures than at any time since the 1920s. This opportunity is fleeting. Because of increased voter turnout in presidential years,...
by Richard Eskow | Feb 23, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism, Democracy
Last week the nation was treated to the sad and embarrassing spectacle of Jeb Bush, mollycoddled scion to an empire of failure, proclaiming that "I'm my own man." Here's a simple rule of thumb: Anyone who has to say he's his own man, or woman, isn't. The 62-year-old...
by Robert Borosage | Feb 23, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism
The furor following Rudolph Giuliani’s ugly slur against President Obama has distracted from what poses a far greater threat to the country than the vile rantings of a washed-up big city pol. Republicans, joined by some Democrats, are fanning the flames of war,...
