by Bill Scher | Apr 17, 2014 | Blog
Yesterday, pro-immigration Republican Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart told the Washington Post's Greg Sargent, "I’m convinced that if we don’t get it [immigration reform] done by the August break, the president, who is feeling a lot of pressure from having not done anything on...
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...
