by Dave Johnson | Sep 20, 2013 | Blog
With one in seven Americans experiencing "food insecurity," Republicans yesterday passed a terrible and cruel cut in Food Stamps. This shows us just who they are. One In Seven New America Foundation: More Than One in Seven U.S. Households Experienced Food Insecurity...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 20, 2013 | Blog
This week the Obama administration's Department of Labor issued new rules extending minimum wage and overtime protection (beginning in 2015) to home care workers. These workers had been classified as the same as babysitters. This is a big change for almost 2 million...
by Richard Eskow | Sep 20, 2013 | Blog
An outside observer might be forgiven for thinking JPMorgan Chase isn’t so much a bank as it is a criminal enterprise with a bank attached to it. Even before the London Whale scandal, Chase's documented list of crimes included repeated fraud, perjury, forgery,...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 20, 2013 | Blog
Republicans are playing a trick on people with the negotiations over the budget and threats to shut down the government. On the one hand, they are threatening to shut down the government over "Obamacare." On the other hand, aside from Obamacare defunding, they are...
by Richard Eskow | Sep 19, 2013 | Blog
When it comes to the economy, the White House is talking tough to the Republicans ... about the debt ceiling. It's true that the threat to shut down the government by refusing to honor its debt obligations is downright un-American. The Administration's right to call...
by Richard Eskow | Sep 18, 2013 | Blog
The Constitution does an admirable job of describing the way our government is supposed to operate, and nowhere does it say the House of Representatives has the power to shut it down in order to revoke a law that displeases it. In fact, it makes it clear that this is...
