by Lynne Stuart Parramore | Oct 2, 2014 | Blog
Suppressing votes by sending out confusing and intimidating mailers is an old-school GOP tactic in North Carolina, one that has been used to keep poor and minority folks away from the polls for decades. Yet never before in the state’s history, or the history of any...
by Jeff Bryant | Oct 2, 2014 | Blog, Education
When hundreds of high school students across a suburban school district outside of Denver, Colo. recently walked out of classes to protest a history curriculum, it quickly became national news. According to a local reporter, the students took to the streets multiple...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 2, 2014 | Blog, Conservatism
Republicans "saved money" by cutting the government's budget for various health agencies ... because "government spending" is always bad. The February 2011 Food Safety News reported, "FDA, FSIS, CDC Face Cuts in House GOP Budget": House Republicans Thursday released a...
by Richard Eskow | Oct 2, 2014 | Blog, Financial Reform
The secret Goldman Sachs tapes released this week by ProPublica and This American Life are attracting a lot of attention, and rightly so. They were clandestinely recorded by Carmen Segarra, an investigator for the New York Federal Reserve Bank who was eventually fired...
by Lynne Stuart Parramore | Oct 1, 2014 | Blog
The FDIC estimates there are 10 million people living in the U.S. who do not have a bank account — that’s one out of every 13 households. Nearly 33 percent of people living in Starr County, TX can’t write a check. In one census district in Savannah, GA, over 42...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 1, 2014 | Blog, Economy, Tax Reform
Washington elites are "optimistic" about another "reform." That's never good. According to an article in The Hill this week, "WH adviser 'optimistic' for corporate tax reform": A top economic official in the White House on Tuesday expressed confidence that the next...
