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...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 16, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth, Trade
Here are two contrasting infrastructure stories to following up on yesterday’s post, "Investment In Infrastructure Would Cure Today’s Slow Growth Problem": The U.S. has deferred maintaining (never mind modernizing) our infrastructure for so long (since the Reagan tax...
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...
