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...
by Alan Jenkins | Jul 15, 2014 | Blog, Democracy
The U.S. Senate last week overwhelmingly confirmed San Antonio Mayor Juliàn Castro to lead the Department of Housing and Urban Development. One of Castro’s first official acts as HUD Secretary should be to make concrete the Department’s duty to promote fair housing...
by Dave Johnson | Jul 15, 2014 | Blog, Tax Reform
You've been hearing a lot about corporations "renouncing their U.S. citizenship" through "tax inversions." This is when a company buys or merges with a non-U.S. company and claims to no longer be based in the U.S. to get out of paying certain taxes. The company does,...
by Dave Johnson | Jul 14, 2014 | Blog, Gender Justice, Health
There is a new "Not My Boss' Business" bill being introduced in the Senate to undo the damage done by the (older, Catholic males on the) Supreme Court in the Hobby Lobby decision. According to the National Women's Law Center, the Not My Boss' Business bill would...
