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...
by Dave Johnson | Jun 11, 2014 | Blog
Senators Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) and Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) issued an appeal Tuesday to President Obama to crack down on currency manipulation, which has cost 5.8 million U.S. jobs and increased the federal budget deficit by $266 billion. They also asked the president...
by Bill Scher | Jun 11, 2014 | Blog
There are 506,065 registered voters in Virginia's 7th congressional district. About 364,000 of them, or 72 percent, support immigration reform that includes legalization of those currently undocumented, according to a new Public Policy Polling survey. Only 36,120 of...
