by Dave Johnson | Feb 13, 2015 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
[fve]http://youtu.be/5o6vJw9mkzU[/fve] The Conservative/Wall Street/1 Percent/Republican anti-government strategy is to set government up to fail (usually by starving it of funding). Then they point to the resulting "crisis" they created and say it proves that...
by Terrance Heath | Feb 12, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism, Economy, Health, Jobs and Growth
The president is right. Staples is cutting workers’ hours (and paychecks) to avoid providing health insurance. Shame on them, but that’s only half the story. Earlier this week, Buzzfeed reported that the office supply giant Staples Inc., has begun limiting part-time...
by Jeff Bryant | Feb 12, 2015 | Blog, Education
My colleague Bill Scher recently called our attention to an opinion piece by Thomas Edsall in The New York Times that revealed "the Republican appropriation of leftist populist rhetoric." Republicans "plan to bring the fight to the Democrats on their own turf,"...
by Diane Archer | Feb 12, 2015 | Blog, Retirement Security
Most people pay a Social Security tax of 6.2 percent on their income throughout the year, on every dollar they earn. But the top 1 percent of working Americans are only taxed during the first six weeks of the year, on a small portion of what they earn. They pay the...
by Richard Eskow | Feb 12, 2015 | Blog, Retirement Security
Nine out of ten Americans have fallen behind financially as the well-to-do – especially the ultra-wealthy – capture an ever-increasing chunk of our national income. This inequality threatens the entire economy's future growth and stability. But whenever someone offers...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 11, 2015 | Blog, Trade
[fve]http://youtu.be/sfxMRWVJcrs[/fve] On Sunday I was the speaker on a regular Sunday call for the National Campaign Call to Stop Fast Track for the TPP. (TPP stands for Trans-Pacific Partnership, a NAFTA-style trade deal that is being negotiated in secret right...
