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...
by Terrance Heath | Sep 13, 2012 | Blog, Economy
There's one thing I forgot to mention in my previous post, "10 Ways to Rebuild the Middle Class": We already know how to rebuild the middle class. We've done it before. One way we built the middle class was to "Give unemployed job seekers a real, fresh start," which...
