by Bill Scher | Dec 9, 2014 | Blog
On MSNBC's "Morning Joe" today, Politico's Mike Allen and former Governor Howard Dean discussed my analysis for Politico Magazine, "Can The Left Launch Its Own Tea Party?" Allen noted that progressive Democrats a newly "hungry" to play "hardball" against party...
by Leo Gerard | Dec 9, 2014 | Blog
Holiday bells are silent in the homes of America’s struggling working poor, even with gasoline prices at their lowest levels in years. These are people derided as moochers because their starvation wages force them to accept food stamps to feed their children. On the...
by Terrance Heath | Dec 9, 2014 | Blog, Progressive Vision
Fox News hosts Bill O’Reilly and Megyn Kelly assured us that the “Ferguson story” would be over in a week. [fve]http://youtu.be/_Fx6AUZDZ7E[/fve] That was before a grand jury declined to indict NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo for killing Eric Garner with an illegal...
by Sam Pizzigati | Dec 9, 2014 | Blog, Economy
A rising tide lifts all boats. A growing economic pie means bigger slices for everybody. Wealth that flows to the top will always trickle down. Cheerleaders for wealth’s concentration have over the years invoked a variety of images to justify the ever larger fortunes...
by Dave Johnson | Dec 8, 2014 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
Shouldn't it be a trade violation to threaten to move someone's job to another country? Shouldn't we negotiate trade agreements that increase people's wages on both sides of a trade border? These are the kinds of agreements we would make if We the People were...
by Robert Reich | Dec 8, 2014 | Blog, Economy, Financial Reform, Progressive Vision
In Washington’s coming budget battles, sacred cows like the tax deductions for home mortgage interest and charitable donations are likely to be on the table along with potential cuts to Social Security and Medicare. But no one on Capitol Hill believes Wall Street’s...
