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...
by Dave Johnson | May 8, 2014 | Blog, Tax Reform
A huge, huge giveaway of tax money to giant corporations is rolling down the tracks at us. If it happens, this tax giveaway would be second only to the bank bailouts on the list of schemes to give money to private corporations. (Except, with the bailouts we got some...
by Jasmine Tucker | May 7, 2014 | Blog, Tax Reform
From the perspective of the federal government, tax breaks are no different from any other kind of federal spending. Just like money we spend on programs such as early childhood education or food safety, when we approve tax breaks, it means less money in the U.S....
by Jeff Bryant | May 7, 2014 | Blog, Education
When members of the U.S. House of Representatives consider, beginning today, a bill to incentivize the expansion of charter schools, you can expect there to be a lot of heat but not very much light in their discussion of the need for more of these institutions. The...
by Bill Scher | May 7, 2014 | Blog
[fve]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUwVAimKnIM[/fve] Two months ago, Republican congresswoman Renee Ellmers went on Laura Ingraham's national right-wing radio show, forcefully defended her position on immigration reform, and told the host, "Why are you being so...
by Richard Eskow | May 7, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
Sometimes you have to step back a few paces to see how much conservatism has distorted the public debate. Case in point: employment. Somehow the right has managed to stigmatize public-sector jobs so effectively that only politicians of rare and admirable courage are...
