by Bill Scher | May 9, 2014 | Blog
When the State Department delayed its decision on the Keystone pipeline because the specific route is tied up in the Nebraska courts, pipeline supporters accused President Obama of playing politics, avoiding a polarizing decision before the midterm elections. When the...
by Sam Pizzigati | May 9, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
We may now be living in the golden age of executive-pay journalism. Nearly every day seems to bring still another story exposing the sheer lunacy of contemporary CEO compensation. In the last week alone we’ve learned that “pay for performance” has raised CEO earnings...
by Richard Eskow | May 9, 2014 | Blog, Economy
Sixty years after the Supreme Court ruled in favor of school integration, a review by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) found that “Schools remain segregated today because neighborhoods in which they are located are segregated.” EPI’s Richard Rothstein found that...
by Isaiah J. Poole | May 8, 2014 | Blog, Winning Issues for 2014
Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn), the co-chairman of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, has a sharp warning for Democrats in an exclusive interview with Truthout.org: Focus less on fund-raising and more on people and their need for progressive, populist solutions to...
by Dave Johnson | May 8, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth, Minimum Wage
This week North Carolina's Tom Tillis won the state's primary to become the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate. Then he appeared on Chuck Todd's show on MSNBC and was asked about raising the federal minimum wage. Tillis replied with the standard Republican...
by Robert Borosage | May 8, 2014 | Blog, Health
Partisan politics can cost lives. Partisan passions blind petty politicians to the human costs of their actions. Today, 24 state legislators and governors have refused to expand Medicaid to cover poor working people in their state – even though the Federal government...
