by Dave Johnson | Oct 29, 2013 | Blog
Amtrak doesn't "make money" so Republicans want to cut back on service to rural areas. This is America's ideological tension: democracy serves We the People, plutocracy and markets serve the people who have money. Of course you read Progressive Breakfast every morning...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 29, 2013 | Blog
You may have heard the early estimate putting the cost of the shutdown at $24 billion. Time's Swampland has the number, in Here’s How Much The Government Shutdown Cost The Economy. That was an early and very low estimate. It included, About $3.1 billion in lost...
by Bill Scher | Oct 28, 2013 | Blog
The immigration reform news of the day is that Sen. Marco Rubio's spokeperson told several news outlets that the senator does not support holding a House-Senate conference that would consider the Senate immigration bill for which, by the way, Rubio voted in support....
by Sam Pizzigati | Oct 27, 2013 | Blog
America's top execs don't have the time to celebrate. They're too busy waging a corporate holy war against what may be the most promising check yet on executive pay excess. In 1930, an obscure lawsuit against Bethlehem Steel unearthed a piece of corporate data that...
by Richard Eskow | Oct 26, 2013 | Blog
A broad coalition of organizations, including the Campaign for America's Future and Social Security Works, is joining Sen. Bernie Sanders in a petition drive to resist cuts to Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare. It only takes a few moments to sign; it's that easy....
by Dave Johnson | Oct 25, 2013 | Blog
An anti-union letter in my local paper today inadvertently exposes what's going on with the economy. This letter is about the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) transit-worker strike, but applies to working people across the country. (Working people means people who work...
