by Sam Pizzigati | Nov 10, 2013 | Blog
Americans are gaining, ever so slowly, a more accurate picture of just how wide the gap has stretched between the nation's most fabulously privileged and everyone else. How unequal have workplaces in the United States become? Our best answer happens to come...
by Robert Borosage | Nov 8, 2013 | Blog
The headline jobs number of the Bureau of Labor Statistics October jobs report --204,000 new jobs – is higher than expected, given that the report covers the time of the government shutdown. Although the report notes that furloughed federal workers were largely...
by Dave Johnson | Nov 6, 2013 | Blog
Everyone is reading the tea leaves to understand what the Virginia or New York City or New Jersey elections might mean in 2014 and 2016. Does Christie's election mean Republican "moderates" are ascendant? Does Bill de Blasio's election show that progressives are the...
by Bill Scher | Nov 6, 2013 | Blog
Tonight at 6:30 PM in Washington, DC progressives inlcuding Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Van Jones and Rep. Donna Edwards will gather to honor grassroots champions, Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, Leo Gerard and Margery Tabankin at the Celebrating America's Future 2013...
by Dave Johnson | Nov 6, 2013 | Blog
The current filibuster rules are being used to thwart the will of We the People. Republicans have abused it to obstruct everything -- and I do mean everything. The solution is to change the rules and make them talk, not kill the filibuster entirely. Obstructing The...
by Richard Eskow | Nov 6, 2013 | Blog
We wrote an extended piece, available at AlterNet and Salon, on a new poll funded by Esquire magazine and NBC News which claims to have discovered the existence of something called “the New American Center.” The methodology is flawed, the questions are biased,...
