by Dave Johnson | May 29, 2014 | Blog, Conservatism
Republicans are beginning to harvest the fruits of their obstruction. The strategy is to set the stage for the election by obstructing everything that could help the economy get better, as well as anything that might make our lives better. They understand that they...
by Richard Eskow | May 29, 2014 | Blog, Financial Reform
Economists Amir Sufi and Atif Mian have been researching the housing crisis and its impact on the economy for more than six years. They have now written a book for general audiences entitled “House of Debt: How They (and You) Caused the Great Recession, and How...
by Jeff Bryant | May 29, 2014 | Blog, Education
Michelle Obama is very upset. According to reports from CNN, the First Lady finds it's "unacceptable" that Republicans lawmakers in the House are pushing to allow schools to opt out of nutrition regulations that were part of a 2010 law that established new...
by Isaiah J. Poole | May 29, 2014 | Blog, Populist Majority, The New Populism
Here's how to get in less than 20 minutes all that we've been saying about what the populist majority supports and the winning political message that will get them to the polls: Watch pollster Celinda Lake's presentation at The New Populism Conference last week. Her...
by Dave Johnson | May 28, 2014 | Blog
A recent AP "big story" tries to explain why CEO pay soaring and everyone else's is stagnant or falling. It says more than it intends about the state of our economy and our governing system. AP's "The CEO Got A Huge Raise. You Didn't. Here's Why," by Josh Boak boils...
by Robert Borosage | May 28, 2014 | Blog, The New Populism
A powerful new populist challenge is emerging from the reality of an economy that is not working for working people. It is expressed not by the Koch-funded, rabidly anti-government Tea Party, but by the new populists, inside and outside the Democratic Party. Sen....
