by Sam Pizzigati | Oct 17, 2014 | Blog
Billionaire CEO Nicholas Woodman, news reports trumpeted earlier this month, has set aside $450 million worth of his GoPro software stock to set up a brand-new charitable foundation. “We wake up every morning grateful for the opportunities life has given us," Woodman...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 17, 2014 | Blog, Retirement Security
Democrats have (finally, belatedly) rediscovered that support for Social Security is a winning issue in elections. Social Security has been called the "third rail" of American politics and it turns out that talking about cutting Social Security is still like touching...
by Bill Scher | Oct 17, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
In 2012, Republicans nominated for president a private equity firm CEO with a record of outsourcing jobs. It did not go well. [fve]http://youtu.be/Ud3mMj0AZZk[/fve] In several states for the 2014 midterm elections, Republicans have done it again. And it may cost them...
by Sam Pizzigati | Oct 16, 2014 | Blog
Imagine yourself part of the typical American family. Your household would have, the Federal Reserve reported in September, a net worth of $81,200. That’s not a whole lot of money. But half of America’s households would actually have less wealth than you do. Now...
by Larry Cohen | Oct 16, 2014 | Blog, Progressive Vision, Trade
At the deportation center in San Pedro Sula, planes land with over 100 Hondurans a day, returned from our border prisons to their native land. They are mostly young men, shackled hands and legs, who have harrowing tales of days in what they call the “ice box,” the US...
by Jeff Bryant | Oct 16, 2014 | Blog
Sometimes when you get enough people beating on the outside of a building, those sitting comfortably on the inside start to feel the vibrations. That's what it feels like is happening as the voices from the grassroots movement protesting the nation's oppressive...
