by Robert Borosage | Dec 5, 2014 | Blog
The November Bureau of Labor Services jobs report was relatively good news – a healthy 321,000 new jobs, leaving unemployment unchanged at 5.8%. The BLS also added 44,000 jobs in an adjustment for the prior two months. The Commerce Department reports that the economy...
by Robert Borosage | Dec 5, 2014 | Blog
The following was co-authored by Richard Long As powerful protests of the New York Eric Garner grand jury decision – We can’t breathe – swept across the country, low wage fast food and retail workers walked off their jobs in some 180 cities, demanding a living wage...
by Richard Eskow | Dec 4, 2014 | Blog
Death, like life, occurs within an interconnected web of forces. Eric Garner died at a specific place and time, but he was drawn there by those larger unseen forces. So was the officer who took his life. One of them never left. The neighborhood where Eric Garner died...
by Jeff Bryant | Dec 4, 2014 | Blog
The following article authored by Education Opportunity Network Director Jeff Bryant has been awarded one of the "top 25 most censored or underreported news stories of 2014." The award came from Project Censored, "a media research, literacy, and education organization...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Dec 4, 2014 | Blog
"I can't breathe." There is more to this chant – the haunting last words of Eric Garner before he died at the hands of New York City police that were echoed in demonstrations around the country Wednesday night – than a protest against the epidemic of police brutality...
by Richard Eskow | Dec 4, 2014 | Blog, Populist Majority, Progressive Vision
In his examination of former Virginia Senator Jim Webb's potential presidential candidacy, New York Times commentator Thomas Edsall explored Webb's potential appeal to “voters convinced that Wall Street owns both parties, voters tired of politicians submitting to...
