by Richard Eskow | Jun 11, 2014 | Blog, Conservatism, Financial Reform
[fve]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhDDDsN8SpA [/fve] The above interview with Thom Hartmann took place Monday night on "The Big Picture," his television program. The first half of the discussion is based on a recent piece of mine about “The People’s Fed,”...
by Dave Johnson | Jun 11, 2014 | Blog, Economy, Tax Reform
This one is simply outrageous. Corporations currently owe up to $700 billion in unpaid, "deferred" taxes. The country needs the money – partly because these companies owe so much in taxes. Which of the following choices should the country make? 1. Tell the companies...
by Richard Eskow | Jun 11, 2014 | Blog, Education
President Obama signed an executive order Monday limiting student debt payments to 10 percent of their income, telling an audience in the East Room of the White House that he and his wife only paid off their law school loans about ten years ago. "This is why I feel so...
by Sam Pizzigati | Jun 10, 2014 | Blog, Economy
Back in 1979, notes a new Economic Policy Institute report released last week, households in America’s statistical middle — the 20 percent of households making more than the nation’s poorest 40 percent and less than the nation’s most affluent 40 percent — averaged...
by Leo Gerard | Jun 10, 2014 | Blog
A dozen North Carolinians had the brazen idea that, as American citizens, they could exercise their right to express their concerns to one of their elected representatives, Thom Tillis, who is the general assembly’s Speaker of the House. They waited patiently...
by Dave Johnson | Jun 9, 2014 | Blog, Conservatism, Health
The city of Texarkana sits on the border of Texas and Arkansas. Arkansas expanded Medicaid under Obamacare but in Texas Republicans blocked it. Meanwhile in Virginia, Republicans bribed a Democratic senator to resign, enabling Republicans to block people from getting...
