by Terrance Heath | Sep 13, 2012 | Blog, Economy, Minimum Wage
The middle class is the great engine of the American economy, but today that engine is sputtering. Our economic crisis is one half of a vicious cycle in which it and the unemployment crisis feed and perpetuate one another, hollowing out the middle-class in the...
by Richard Eskow | Sep 13, 2012 | Blog
Few individuals or organizations have been as influential as Mitt Romney and Bain Capital in worsening our runaway healthcare costs, causing unnecessary suffering, or accelerating our government's long-term deficit problem. Their highly leveraged investment strategy...
by Richard Eskow | Sep 13, 2012 | Blog
This week a lot of Democrats and "liberals" are attacking Chicago teachers for what they tell us are their extravagant and "unreasonable" demands. It's funny: If they think teaching's such a gravy train, why have they all become bankers instead? These...
by Jeff Bryant | Sep 13, 2012 | Blog, Education
"So much for Democratic harmony," is the way Herold Meyerson chose to start his op-ed in The Washington Post analyzing the ramifications of the current Chicago teachers strike on the well being of the Democratic party. His conclusion is that there must be some kind of...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 13, 2012 | Blog
Teachers in Chicago are on strike. You will hear from the usual anti-government, anti-union crowd that this is another instance of greedy public employees trying to get more money, but that is just wrong and here's why. The teachers say they are fighting for smaller...
