by Roger Hickey | Jul 14, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
Barack Obama won the presidency in 2008 with a pledge to end the recession and then build a 21st-century, full-employment economy. His program: invest big time in America's transportation and energy infrastructure - and in education and training. Today, Americans...
by Terrance Heath | Jul 11, 2014 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
Remember Elian Gonzales? He was the little Cuban boy found clinging to an inner tube of the coast of Florida, on Thanksgiving Day in 1999. He’d been rescued by fishermen after his mother and 11 others drowned in an attempt to reach the U.S. from Cuba. His fate sparked...
by Joshua Holland | Jul 11, 2014 | Blog
Those seething with so much rage and xenophobia that they’d hurl ugly epithets in the faces of children fleeing bloody violence in Central America bring shame to the whole nation. But the response of mainstream America hasn’t been much better. The media’s...
by Bill Scher | Jul 11, 2014 | Blog
Speaker John Boehner, who has long said "the biggest impediment we have to immigration reform is that the American people don’t trust the president to enforce or implement the law that we may or may not pass," made an unusual comment yesterday. Asked at a press...
by Richard Eskow | Jul 11, 2014 | Blog, Financial Reform
Pop quiz: Which bank is widely considered too big to fail, needed (and got) a $45 billion government loan during the financial crisis, recently failed a stress test performed by the Federal Reserve – and has enjoyed a revolving-door relationship with both the Clinton...
by Dave Johnson | Jul 11, 2014 | Blog, Tax Reform
Here's the latest corporate tax scam: Companies are renouncing their U.S. corporate status and claiming that their headquarters are instead located in one or some other low-tax country, like Switzerland. The technical word for what they are doing is an "inversion." It...
