by Richard Eskow | Apr 17, 2014 | Blog, Health
[fve]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5-UvHcFmEw[/fve] Why did Florida’s Republicans let a hard-working young mother of three die rather than accept federal funding that would’ve provided her with health insurance? “Sadism.” According to Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.),...
by Jeff Bryant | Apr 16, 2014 | Blog, Education
Would you like your job performance judged by a 5-year-old? That's a relevant question for public school teachers in Hawaii, where the state's new teacher evaluation system attributes 10 percent of their job performance rating on what children as young as 5 years old...
by Bill Scher | Apr 16, 2014 | Blog
Today the EPA released its annual accounting of US greenhouse gas emissions for 2012. And it's good news. The highlights: 1. After increasing greenhouse gas emissions nearly every year from 1990 to 2008, emissions are down 8% since President Obama was sworn in, and...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 16, 2014 | Blog, Trade
LISTEN: Dave Johnson on the Rick Smith Show talks about China's currency manipulation. The Treasury Department released its "Semi-Annual Report to Congress on International Economic and Exchange Rate Policies" this week, and went to great lengths to find a way not to...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 16, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
How's your job going – if you even have one? The odds are very, very high that you haven't seen a raise in a long time. Or maybe you were laid off and found a new job at half your old pay. They say this is the "new normal." Meanwhile, CEO pay just keeps climbing and...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 15, 2014 | Blog, Tax Reform
It's Tax Day! And right now Congress is working on Tax Day giveaways for the big corporations. When corporations avoid paying their fair share of taxes, the rest of us end up picking up the tab. So Happy Tax Day! Have you heard politicians screaming about "the...
