by Bill Scher | Jul 17, 2014 | Blog
Today Speaker Boehner warned that Congress may not be able to pass legislation to help address the influx of Central American child migrants, because too many Democrats are unwilling to alter the 2008 human trafficking law, and give President Obama's Border Patrol...
by Jeff Bryant | Jul 17, 2014 | Blog, Education
Who could ever forget comedian Jon Stewart's commentary in early 2009 on how financial reporters totally botched reporting of the Great Recession. Stewart mocked journalists at CNBC for missing all the warning signs of the overvalued housing market and their failure...
by Robert Borosage | Jul 17, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth, Progressive Vision
House Democrats released their 2014 election year platform Wednesday, entitled "Middle Class Jump Start: 100 Day Action Plan to Put the Middle Class First." Naturally, the release of a major party’s election year agenda received virtually no press coverage, far less...
by Richard Eskow | Jul 16, 2014 | Blog, Retirement Security
[fve]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFntSIjxIaw[/fve] Sen. Sherrod Brown discusses Social Security expansion with Richard (RJ) Eskow on The Zero Hour William Galston writes in the Wall Street Journal about a Republican senator’s plans to force a confrontation on...
by Dave Johnson | Jul 15, 2014 | Blog, Trade
Going into last week's U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue (S&ED) a key issue was China's ongoing currency manipulation. This matters. A February study by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) showed that China’s currency manipulation costs between 2.3 and...
by Richard Eskow | Jul 15, 2014 | Blog
The Justice Department's settlement with Citigroup was finally announced Monday. A $7 billion settlement against a too-big-to-fail bank? What’s not to love? We’ll answer that with another question: If the settlement that the Justice Department just negotiated with...
