by Alan Jenkins | Oct 2, 2012 | Blog
For months I’ve been part of a chorus of voices calling on the presidential candidates to talk about home opportunity. Their virtual silence on addressing foreclosures, restoring devastated communities, ensuring fair housing and lending, and resurrecting the American...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 2, 2012 | Blog
The Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights has issued a report describing the company Mitt Romney invested in and described in the now-famous secret video – Global-Tech – as a "brutal Chinese sweatshop." In a report titled Betting Against American Workers the...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 2, 2012 | Blog
The complicated story of how the 1%ers and their corporations evade democracy's taxes is the story of our crumbling schools and infrastructure and the flow of all the gains of our economy to a very few at the top. This tax evasion is also part of the story of our...
by Terrance Heath | Oct 2, 2012 | Blog, Financial Reform
In his most recent column, Paul Krugman makes a convincing case that the "real referendum" in this election isn't about President Obama's (real or imagined) economic policies, but about the "the legacy of the New Deal and the Great Society, on...
by Bill Scher | Oct 2, 2012 | Blog
How do you know that Elizabeth Warren won yesterday's debate with Sen. Scott Brown? Both campaigns released web videos today. But only Warren's features a moment from the debate: The Scalia Moment. This is the worst kind of gaffe, the kind that confirms everything...
by Leo Gerard | Oct 2, 2012 | Blog
Republicans’ reaction to last week’s Monday Night Football debacle was record breaking given their decades of hating on union workers. After replacement refs bestowed on the Seattle Seahawks a game clearly won by the Green Bay Packers, GOP standard bearers Mitt Romney...
