by Dave Johnson | Sep 17, 2012 | Blog, Jobs and Growth, Trans-Pacific Partnership
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement is being negotiated in secret. Well, not exactly secret -- our trade negotiators know what is being negotiated, other countries know, heads of the huge multinational corporations get to know, but members of our...
by Sam Pizzigati | Sep 16, 2012 | Blog
In any society where wealth and income concentrate overwhelmingly at the top, the affluent will almost always come to sneer at public services and the men and women who provide them. In Chicago, those men and women have pushed back. Last year state lawmakers in...
by | Sep 14, 2012 | Blog, The Sequester
Originally posted at Capital Gains and Games. Bruce Bartlett emailed me to say that, rather than cancel the sequester as I recommended, we should get the band back together and reconstitute the anything-but-super committee to give it another chance to come up with a...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 13, 2012 | Blog, Climate
Republicans in the House have introduced a bill called the "No More Solyndras Act." It may as well be named the "No More Competing With Oil Companies Act" or the "Hand Our Economy To China Act." The "No More Solyndras Act" The "No More Solyndras Act," H.R. 6213, is...
