by Terrance Heath | Nov 9, 2012 | Blog
After many years in the workforce, most of them spent working in Washington, DC, I firmly believe you can tell an awful lot about people by they way they treat those who work for or under them. Those relationships can reveal a lot about how someone sees the world and...
by Richard Eskow | Nov 9, 2012 | Blog, Minimum Wage
It's possible to feel sorry for Mitt Romney, as one human being to another. Apparently he really didn't believe he could possibly lose and now he's "shell-shocked." Guess he didn't listen to all the experts who said he was going to lose. Forget Nate Silver: Bob Dylan...
by Richard Eskow | Nov 8, 2012 | Blog
By Richard Eskow President Obama was reportedly planning to reach out to House Majority Leader John Boehner today to begin negotiating a deal to avoid the so-called "fiscal cliff," a series of spending cuts and tax hikes that will take effect unless Congress recinds...
by Terrance Heath | Nov 8, 2012 | Blog, Financial Reform
In the words of the old spiritual, "My Lord, what a morning!" Barack Obama's 2008 campaign was defined by an iconic poster bearing the single word: "Change." Obama's victory in 2008 signified how much America had already changed enough to make his historic campaign...
by Robert Borosage | Nov 8, 2012 | Blog, Economy
Washington is headed immediately into the fiscal showdown, with fierce pressure to use the arbitrary year-end deadline for the termination of various tax cuts and the automatic cut or sequester of some 9 percent of discretionary spending to force a grand bargain. Here...
by Dave Johnson | Nov 8, 2012 | Blog
The public looked at the stories about Solyndra and Sensata and voted. They voted for clean energy jobs IN the US, not for vulture capitalism that ships our jobs and industries OUT of the US. They voted to act as a united country instead of a leaving everyone on their...
