by Dave Johnson | Oct 4, 2012 | Blog
Walmart warehouse workers have been staging strikes, now workers at some stores are joining in. This morning in Pico Rivera, California, Walmart workers staged a one-day work stoppage, saying there has been retaliation against them for trying to organize a union. At...
by Robert Borosage | Oct 4, 2012 | Blog
After last night’s tiresome presidential debate, President Obama’s supporters were replete with what Groucho Marks used to call “departee” – suggestions on what the president should have said. That’s a pretty good indicator about how the debate turned out. The evening...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 4, 2012 | Blog
I think President Obama spoke the best line in the debate last night. Call it a "zinger" if you want. "If you're 54 or 55, you might want to listen." Again and again Mitt Romney talked about how under his Medicare plan there would be no changes for "current retirees."...
by Richard Eskow | Oct 3, 2012 | Blog
The conventional wisdom says that when a President runs for re-election the race becomes a referendum on the economy. Unemployment's still at record highs, poverty has soared, and middle-class Americans are struggling to stay afloat. And yet the President has a...
