by Bill Scher | Jun 12, 2014 | Blog
In 2007, six coal miners were trapped, never to be found, in Utah's Crandall Canyon mine. On the day after the mine initially collapsed, the mine owner, Robert Murray of Murray Energy, began a press conference not with the plans for finding his employees, but with...
by Dave Johnson | Jun 12, 2014 | Blog
This week Democrats added 23 new bills to the comprehensive Make It In America plan. These new bills are not like the usual Republican "giving tax cuts to rich people fixes everything" nonsense. These bills contain real substance, and represent a great deal of hard...
by Robin Claremont | Jun 12, 2014 | Blog
By Robin Claremont and Jasmine Tucker Earlier this week, President Obama signed an executive order that will allow more student borrowers to become eligible for a program that caps monthly payments based on their income. This would especially help out recent grads who...
by Jeff Bryant | Jun 12, 2014 | Blog, Education
Anyone who remembers the spectacle of the Obama administration's maneuvering on the Grand Bargain for solving the nation's financial problems should feel in familiar territory watching how the current controversy over the Common Core State Standards is playing out....
by Dave Johnson | Jun 12, 2014 | Blog, Education
If you are crushed by student loan debt at a rate of 6 or 7 percent, maybe even higher, you would want to know who to hold accountable for killing the bill to let you refinance at a lower rate. That's how democracy is supposed to work. So did our nation's news media...
by Richard Eskow | Jun 12, 2014 | Blog, Populist Majority, The New Populism
Twenty-four hours have now passed since House Majority Leader Eric Cantor's surprise primary defeat. Oceans of pixelated ink have already been spilled interpreting its meaning. Cantor's defeat has certainly put an end to the conventional wisdom that "establishment...
