by Thom Hartmann | Aug 9, 2013 | Blog
There’s an undeclared war going on between the rich and the poor right here in the United States and the rich think they’ve found a way to win it. They’ve locked themselves into gated communities, lily-white suburbs, and wealthy urban neighborhoods and they’ve...
by Greg Kaufmann | Aug 9, 2013 | Blog
Congressman Paul Ryan recently said that Republicans “don’t have a full-fledged” plan to fight poverty “because we need to do more listening to people who are in the trenches fighting poverty.” He had the perfect opportunity to do just that at a recent House Budget...
by Richard Eskow | Aug 8, 2013 | Blog
Fast food workers have been conducting one-day strikes for better wages and working conditions in several American cities. They’ve also been doing much more than that: They’re shown the entire country real leadership. They’re fighting for all of us, and their fight is...
by Dean Baker | Aug 8, 2013 | Blog
A bipartisan group of senators recently put forward a proposal for new Glass-Steagall legislation that would restore a strict separation between commercial banks and speculative trading. Anyone familiar with the ways of Washington knows that such legislation is badly...
by Dave Johnson | Aug 8, 2013 | Blog
Giving unemployment benefits to unemployed people keeps them from going to your boss and offering to do your job for half what you are paid. Better yet, asking government to make sure everyone has a job means your employer has reason to keep you happy and well-paid so...
by Dave Johnson | Aug 8, 2013 | Blog
"People are living longer so we have to increase the Social Security age." You hear that a lot. Here is why this is just wrong. "Life expectancy" is a technical term used in statistics. It almost always means "life expectancy at birth" instead of what people think it...
