by Dave Johnson | Oct 15, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
What's going on with the stock market? Here's one piece of it. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) issued its World Economic Outlook last week, titled "Global Growth Disappoints, Pace of Recovery Uneven and Country-Specific." The title gives away the IMF's economic...
by Terrance Heath | Oct 15, 2014 | Blog, Progressive Vision
On Tuesday night, progressive leaders and activists celebrated champions whose work shows that progressive leadership and governance improve the lives of hard-working Americans. Campaign For America's Future co-director Roger Hickey opened the Celebrating America's...
by Bill Scher | Oct 15, 2014 | Blog
The news in the New York Times is "Democrats’ Hopes to Gain in House Fade." This is a bit misleading, since Democrats were never expected to make gains this year. Republicans are expected to pick up some seats, but not many. They're reaching for 12 seats. Between five...
by Richard Eskow | Oct 15, 2014 | Blog, Progressive Vision
[fve]http://www.youtu.be/l4NVzv0zGxg[/fve] Interview with Patrick Flavin, principal author of the study "Assessing the Impact of the Size and Scope of Government on Human Well-Being," conducted by host of "The Zero Hour" Richard Eskow Forget about feeling “like a room...
by Dean Baker | Oct 14, 2014 | Blog, Economy, Trans-Pacific Partnership
Most economists recognize that the economy is still suffering from excessive unemployment. In fact, many acknowledge that excess unemployment has been a problem for some time. Even Lawrence Summers, who was treasury secretary under President Bill Clinton and head of...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 14, 2014 | Blog, Conservatism, Economy
Cutting federal spending doesn't "save money" – certainly not the way conservatives in Congress and in the states have been doing it. If you cut the Internal Revenue Service budget, that obviously increases the deficit because it lowers the government's ability to...
