by Digby | Feb 4, 2013 | Blog
This is why I so love Pete Peterson and Alan Simpson for launching their generational war. It's such fun being accused of being a "greedy geezer" when this is the result of the inevitable vagaries of capitalism: somebody's going to be on the losing side at the moment...
by Sam Pizzigati | Feb 3, 2013 | Blog
. . we would have a fascinating, first-hand history of the roller-coaster first century of the modern federal income tax. Industrialist Frederick Peabody started building this manse of his dreams in 1913, the same year the income tax started biting into the nation’s...
by Digby | Feb 1, 2013 | Blog
I am on the record saying that Hagel never seemed like the brightest bulb to me but I deferred to those who insisted that he's really quite brilliant. I dunno. What I saw today didn't exactly make me change my mind, even as I have to acknowledge that the Senators...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 1, 2013 | Blog
The deficit problem is largely solved. Yet Republicans are still trying to cut us back into recession. Before the election they had an excuse: if they kept the economy down people might vote against Obama. But now? What is their game? Jobs fix deficits, and to fix...
by Robert Borosage | Feb 1, 2013 | Blog
Despite nearly three years of growth, we have over 20 million people in need of full-time work. Wages are declining. This economy is not working for working people. To recover from this economic downturn, we requires more than a short-term stimulus and certainly not...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 31, 2013 | Blog
The Campaign for America's Future 's Roger Hickey today joins a long list of leaders who are calling on President Obama to name Heidi Hartmann, the founder and president of the Institute for Women's Policy Research, to be the next Secretary of Labor. "The next...
