by Roger Hickey | Nov 9, 2012 | Blog, Economy
In addressing the deficit today, President Obama opened his remarks with the crucial truth: “at a time when our economy’s still recovering from the great recession, our top priority has to be jobs and growth. That’s the focus of the plan that I talked about during the...
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...
