by Hugh Upton | Oct 25, 2012 | Blog
So, the president gave an off the record interview to the Des Moines Register in which he discussed the Grand Bargain. (The paper apparently pitched a fit after the fact and the campaign agreed to allow it to be published.) Q: Mr. President, we know that John Boehner...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 25, 2012 | Blog
There were fourteen arrests today community supporters of the Sensata workers marched on the facility to demand a meeting with the manager of the plant. Arrested include Rev. Jesse Jackson, Bishop Tavis Grant, Rockford Alderman Victory Bell-Rockford, local community...
by Bill Scher | Oct 24, 2012 | Blog
Mitt Romney's jobs plan is a collection of bullet points masking the fact that he has literally no proposals to create jobs. President Barack Obama's newly published jobs plan is a collection of bullet points that understates the detail in the jobs policies he has...
by Steven Capozzola | Oct 24, 2012 | Blog
Here we go again. In the Washington Post's 'Wonkbook,' Dylan Matthews trumpets the tired old canard that American consumers benefit from the low price of Chinese imports. Matthews cites a University of Chicago study that tried to estimate how Chinese...
by Terrance Heath | Oct 24, 2012 | Blog, Making it in America
It turns out that Mitt Romney and Tom Reed (R, NY-23) have more in common than mere party affiliation. Both Romney and Reed are more interested in outsourcing American jobs than creating the kind of good jobs once helped to build and sustain the middle-class. Instead,...
by Richard Eskow | Oct 23, 2012 | Blog
Wealthy Republican incumbent Mary Bono Mack is locked in a tight and bitter Congressional race against a progressive Democrat with an inspiring story. While her campaign focuses on red-baiting her opponent (yes, they still do that in 2012), a new nonpartisan analysis...
