by Richard Eskow | Sep 10, 2013 | Blog
We’re in the midst of the worst employment crisis in modern memory. Lackluster jobs reports like last week’s should remind us that the crisis will last a long, long time unless we act. It would be tragic if superficial "improvements" created by discouraged workers...
by Bill Scher | Sep 9, 2013 | Blog
It is not hyperbole to note that the Syria vote in Congress will be one of the biggest congressional votes in history. Our elected representatives will determine if America should adopt a foreign policy principle in which military force is used to prevent genocide, or...
by Sam Pizzigati | Sep 8, 2013 | Blog
America's corporate chiefs deserve all their hefty rewards, we're told, because they take hefty risks. And what exactly are these richly rewarded corporate chiefs putting at risk? Our retirement security. How’s your 401(k) doing? Working Americans ask themselves this...
by Thom Hartmann | Sep 4, 2013 | Blog
My uncle, King Saunders Jr., was a newspaperman. He reported for several papers during his career, and from 1938 to the 1950s, he was the editor of the Motorwheel News, a weekly newspaper for one of the big auto plants in Lansing, Mich. Although the newspaper was paid...
by Richard Eskow | Sep 4, 2013 | Blog
For 12 years now they've been touting New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg as a model for the politics of the future. Beltway pundits have pushed hard for his amalgam of economically conservative policies and social-issues liberalism. They seized on Bloomberg’s...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 3, 2013 | Blog
Texas Governor Rick Perry is trying to poach jobs from yet another state, offering businesses low taxes and wages. At the same time budget cuts are forcing Texas to convert paved roads to gravel and deep cuts to education continue. What does Texas' job-poaching do to...
