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...
by Dean Baker | Dec 8, 2014 | Blog, Economy, Financial Reform
Sen. Elizabeth Warren kicked off a firestorm last month when she said that she would not support Antonio Weiss, President Barack Obama’s nominee to be undersecretary of the treasury. Her reason was that Weiss had made his career at Lazard, an asset management company...
