by Robert Borosage | Nov 30, 2012 | Blog, The Sequester
Pressure for a deal to avoid the so-called "fiscal cliff" at the end of the year is building. Even minor tremors in the stock market are treated as auguries of the panic that will attend a failure to act. A multi-million dollar campaign funded by Wall Street...
by Jeff Bryant | Nov 29, 2012 | Blog, Education, The Sequester
Public education's fiscal cliff already happened. The "austerity bomb" Paul Krugman warns us of in the New York Times was already dropped on public schools at least two years ago. And what impact the sequestration has on education is, in comparison, a ground assault....
by Robert Borosage | Nov 29, 2012 | Blog
Upon rumors of purported "grand bargain" including $400 billion in cuts to Medicare, Social Secuirty and Medicaid, Rep. Keith Ellision. the leader of the House Progressive Caucus, just said NO: WASHINGTON- Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN), Co-Chair of the Congressional...
by Digby | Nov 29, 2012 | Blog
Not that anyone cares, but it seems that a vast majority of the American public think raising the Medicare eligibility age is stupid: Greg Sargent talks about this issue in depth in this post. He says that the Republicans are refusing to name their demands on...
by Dave Johnson | Nov 29, 2012 | Blog, Minimum Wage
In a surprise move, fast food workers in New York City walked out to strike for better pay. Like Walmart workers a week ago, they are joining the fight to change our economy. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NYyp89dCE8[/youtube] Fast-food workers are...
by Stan Collender | Nov 29, 2012 | Blog
Originally posted at Capital Gains and Games. I first posted about the budget dilemma Hurricane Sandy presented to congressional Republicans in general and House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) on October 31. At that time I said there were three questions: First, how much...
