by Sam Pizzigati | May 20, 2014 | Blog, Economy
These haven’t been the best of times for the young men and women attending America’s colleges and universities. Or for the faculty who teach them. Those students are graduating, if they can afford to get that far, with levels of debt that would have seemed...
by Leo Gerard | May 20, 2014 | Blog
Steelworkers and CEOs, Democrats and Republicans are rallying together this month across the country to alert their fellow Americans to a threat to independence. These groups, often at each other’s throats, have allied to confront a surge in dumped foreign steel, an...
by Richard Eskow | May 20, 2014 | Blog, Financial Reform
Economists Atif Mian and Amir Sufi recently wrote an editorial for The Washington Post headlined "Why Tim Geithner is wrong on homeowner debt relief." Using data and arguments from their upcoming book "House of Debt," Mian and Sufi essentially argue that former...
by Dave Johnson | May 19, 2014 | Blog, Conservatism
For decades we’ve been subjected to constant propaganda that government is inefficient, bureaucratic and expensive. We’re told that the answer is to “privatize,” or “outsource” government functions to private businesses and they will do things more efficiently and...
by Dave Johnson | May 19, 2014 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
The Huffington Post has obtained secret texts from the negotiations for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) trade deal. According to the Huffington Post, Europe wants the U.S. to "expand U.S. fracking, offshore oil drilling and natural gas...
by Bill Scher | May 19, 2014 | Blog, Climate, The New Populism
The rising tide of populism has been sparked by the inherent unfairness of an increasing wealth gap and stagnating wages in the aftermath of a Great Recession caused by some in the top 1 percent. The economic strain directly felt by millions drives support for...
