by Dave Johnson | Feb 12, 2013 | Blog
Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) today called for the creation of a National Network of Manufacturing Innovation (NNMI) and is drafting legislation to accomplish this. The legislation would help establish more next generation manufacturing centers like the National Additive...
by Stan Collender | Feb 12, 2013 | Blog
Quick note about tonight's State of the Union Address: I'm not expecting too much to be said about the budget, deficit or debt. There are four reasons. First, as much as a budget person likes me hates to admit it, all three of those topics are highly contentious,...
by Digby | Feb 11, 2013 | Blog
Bill Moyers asked a bunch of smart people what they would like to see the President say in the State of the Union address this year. Their answers are all good and I urge you to read them. if we could put them all together it would make a hell of a speech. The one...
by Stan Collender | Feb 11, 2013 | Blog
Anyone who thinks H.R. 325 -- the No Budget No Pay law that House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) wants everyone to believe will do so much and be so important -- will, in fact, make any difference is both falling for Boehner's spin and doesn't understand how the...
by Sam Pizzigati | Feb 10, 2013 | Blog
From hiking trails in Oregon to boardrooms in Berlin, critics of our staggeringly unequal corporate order are calling for new limits that link executive compensation to worker paychecks When do societies start taking a new idea seriously? Easy. New ideas start gaining...
by Richard Eskow | Feb 10, 2013 | Blog
Archaeologists of the future will sift through our newspapers, websites, and other ephemera and marvel at the inverted shape of our political debate. They'll be particularly surprised to discover that, at a time when retirement security was being destroyed for an...
