by Jeff Bryant | Sep 4, 2014 | Blog, Education
What will $12 million get you? How about a "conversation about education?" That's what a new organization ,Education Post, aims to get for its "initial grants," courtesy of, according to education reporter Lindsay Layton of The Washington Post, " the Broad Foundation,...
by Sam Pizzigati | Sep 4, 2014 | Blog, Health, Tax Reform
The Institute for Policy Studies has been releasing annual reports on CEO pay for 20 years now, and these "Executive Excess" studies have built up quite a following. One reason: The studies offer what few other CEO pay reports do: context. Anyone with the patience to...
by Richard Eskow | Sep 4, 2014 | Blog, Reviving Strong Unions
[fve]http://youtu.be/zNqFTxCTCTY[/fve] Labor Day was last weekend. For the occasion we interviewed our own Robert Borosage on The Zero Hour radio program regarding his piece entitled "Inequality: A Broad Middle Class Requires Empowering Workers." That piece begins as...
by Bill Scher | Sep 3, 2014 | Blog
In late July, the head of the Republican House campaign committee predicted a "wave" election. And pundits have generally assumed it will be strong Republican year, arguing the Democrats are being weighed down by President Obama's low approval ratings. Republicans can...
by Harvey J Kaye | Sep 3, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
President Obama came to Milwaukee's 2014 Laborfest this past Monday. He said he had come to celebrate Labor Day, to celebrate workers' pursuit of America's promise – or as he put it: "We’re here to celebrate something that sometimes the American people take for...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 2, 2014 | Blog, Democracy
Eric Cantor was a congressman from Virginia and was House majority leader. He was known for being particularly friendly to Wall Street and the giant, multinational corporations. In the June Republican primary, his Virginia constituents got fed up with this and booted...
