by Nehemiah Rolle | Jun 28, 2013 | Blog
The Farm Bill’s recent defeat in the House of Representatives opens up a second chance to get food policy right — including the food aid we give struggling individuals and families. A Michigan and Ohio program could provide some inspiration. The legislation would have...
by Dean Baker | Jun 28, 2013 | Blog
The Social Security and Medicare cutters are very unhappy. Who can blame them? The vast majority of people across the political spectrum oppose their plans to cut these programs. Furthermore, improved budget projections (partly because of cuts that are very bad news)...
by Richard Eskow | Jun 28, 2013 | Blog
The Economic Policy Institute has launched a new website, Inequality.is, where users can take part in an interactive experience that educates them on how economic inequality is real, created, and expensive. In a press call today representatives from EPI spoke further...
by Terrance Heath | Jun 26, 2013 | Blog
We are citizens. That's what I said to my husband, when I called him moments after getting the news that the Supreme Court struck down a key provision of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). It's borrowed from a line uttered by Prior near the end of Tony Kushner's play...
by Dave Johnson | Jun 18, 2013 | Blog
You may have heard that Republicans are forcing (even more) cuts in programs like Meals On Wheels. Big deal, another "budget cut" to reduce the dreaded "government spending." But what does all of this this mean to actual, real people? Read this because what really...
by Richard Eskow | Jun 18, 2013 | Blog
For an estimated 4 million people, including about 210,000 schoolchildren, the farm bill the House is scheduled to start debating today could mean they will be going hungry a lot more often. That has promoted organizations such as Half in 10 and the Food Research and...
