by Robert Borosage | Apr 7, 2014 | Better Off Budget, Blog
This week, the House of Representatives will vote on the Republican budget presented by the Republican Budget Committee chair Paul Ryan, as well as on the Congressional Progressive Caucus “Better Off Budget.” Republicans are lined up to vote for the Ryan budget, with...
by Richard Eskow | Apr 4, 2014 | Blog, Conservatism
Republican Senator Rand Paul has been making a big play for millennials lately, most notably by taking his civil liberties pitch to colleges around the country. Paul has got the right idea when he says his party must “evolve, adapt or die” (although I think the first...
by Terrance Heath | Apr 4, 2014 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
This was a make or break week for Obamacare, with the enrollment deadline looming and a major goal hanging in the balance. Obamacare made good on the goal of 7 million sign-ups, and broke right-wingers tenuous grip with reality. There should be a new rule for...
by Robert Borosage | Apr 4, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
The March jobs report – 192,000 jobs with the unemployment rate remaining at 6.7 percent – is simply more of the same: an economy growing too slowly to make a major dent in continued mass unemployment. This is the 49th straight month of private jobs creation, as the...
by Richard Eskow | Apr 4, 2014 | Blog, Conservatism
In a surprisingly self-pitying Wall Street Journal editorial, billionaire Charles Koch has put forward the proposition that the nation's "collectivists" have unfairly characterized him as "un-American." What Koch calls "character assassination," however, others would...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 4, 2014 | Better Off Budget, Blog, Jobs and Growth
It doesn't matter what Friday's report of the March job numbers shows. If you listed our national problems in order of priority and immediacy, jobs has to be at or near the top. While America's political, media and business elites are all doing fine in their personal...
