by Dave Johnson | Nov 19, 2014 | Blog, Conservatism
Shutdown talk? Already? Republicans don't even take over the Senate until January, but already they're talking about shutting down the government. This time it's over the President's effort to provide some relief for the millions of families and thousands of...
by Terrance Heath | Nov 18, 2014 | Blog, Progressive Vision
The goals of the post-Ferguson movement for justice must reach beyond whether the grand jury indicts officer Darren Wilson in the death of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown. Too much depends upon its success. Over 100 days ago Wilson shot and killed Brown. In the...
by Leo Gerard | Nov 18, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth, Retirement Security
At a chemical plant called Point Pleasant in a town named Apple Grove in a state John Denver labeled almost heaven, a man known as Freel Tackett helped negotiate three collective bargaining agreements that provided raises and decent benefits for workers and retirees....
by Richard Eskow | Nov 18, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
[fve]http://youtu.be/lbjHRMCwh3Y?list=UUcnNWp-tx3-FaCWV4pMFTAg[/fve] We interviewed economist Dean Baker on the latest set of jobs numbers. The conclusion? Good news, but not nearly good enough. We still need a bold plan to reduce unemployment and underemployment,...
by Bill Scher | Nov 18, 2014 | Blog, Climate
In Alison Lundergan Grimes' losing campaign, she ran an ad that made one of the most insightful points of any ad in the 2014 midterm elections. Standing in front of a coal-fired power plant Grimes said, "They are shutting down half the plant and laying off their...
by Sam Pizzigati | Nov 17, 2014 | Blog, Economy
How much income do America’s households take in? How much do they have left after taxes? Do federal taxes leave the nation less or more unequal? Questions don’t get much more basic than these. Or more complicated either. How, for instance, do we define income?...
