by Sam Pizzigati | Mar 4, 2013 | Blog
Luxury fortresses. Armored cars. Helicopter commutes. The abominably unequal 'good life' may be closer than you think. Meanwhile, in South Africa . . . A dozen years ago, Brazil ranked as the world’s most unequal major nation. Brazil’s most affluent 10 percent were...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 4, 2013 | Blog
I was doing research, gathering headlines for a post. But the headlines told a story of their own. So here they are: 2010 November 2010, Corporate Profits Hit New Record, U.S. Workers Still Struggling 2011 January 2011, Profits Are Booming. Why Aren’t Jobs? May 2011,...
by Digby | Mar 4, 2013 | Blog
Dylan Matthews at Wonkblog reports on a fascinating study about liberal vs conservative beliefs: Last year, a group of political scientists took a random sample of state legislators and asked them a slew of questions, most of which boiled down to: “What do your...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 4, 2013 | Blog
The Speaker of the House last week said that taxing people to pay for government is theft. Let's look at just where actual theft is occurring. Michael McAuliff and Sabrina Siddiqui covered the story at the Huffington Post, in John Boehner Compares Tax Proposals Of...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 2, 2013 | Blog
Republicans insist on cutting and gutting the things government does to make our lives better because, they say, "we're broke." Meanwhile a new study by Congress’ Government Accountability Office (GAO) shows that in 2010 the big U.S. companies paid only 12.6% in taxes...
by Diane Archer | Feb 28, 2013 | Blog
-In his extraordinarily well-documented expose on the medical-industrial complex for Time magazine, "Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us,” Steven Brill explains thoroughly and repeatedly what serious pundits, policy experts and policymakers have failed to...
