by Sam Pizzigati | Sep 16, 2013 | Blog
The exceedingly comfortable who sit in America's richest 1 percent have regained the outrageously outsized share of the nation's income they held just before the economy cratered five years ago. The future just keeps getting brighter for Americans with unique...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 16, 2013 | Blog
While our government is laying off hundreds and hundreds of thousands and cutting services in the name of cutting deficits, a new report exposes that taxpayers are handing more than $1 trillion a year to the wealthiest. DC Focused On Deficits Not Jobs Instead of...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 11, 2013 | Blog
"A world of radical inequality doesn’t work." — United Steelworkers President Leo Gerard While the nation discusses how to respond to the use of chemical weapons by Syria, America's economic woes continue. The middle class and below is squeezed by wage stagnation;...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 10, 2013 | Blog
At the AFL-CIO's national convention in Los Angeles Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren gave a rousing and fully progressive speech Sunday. [fve]http://youtu.be/aJS6TV6F3As[/fve] I'm at the convention, and after the speech I heard several people comment that this...
by Leo Gerard | Sep 10, 2013 | Blog
The Washington Post and federal investigators are hounding Robert F. McDonnell, the Republican governor of Virginia, for taking more than $150,000 in cash and gifts from the CEO of Star Scientific, Jonnie R. Williams Sr. Gov. McDonnell, a former businessman himself,...
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...
