by | Sep 12, 2012 | Blog, The Sequester
Originally posted at Capital Gains and Games. I want to say this as directly as possible: The sequester - the Jan. 2 across-the-board spending cut that was triggered when the anything-but-super committee failed to agree on a deficit reduction plan last November -...
by Richard Eskow | Sep 12, 2012 | Blog
If a recent report is true, the Justice Department will need a new name – and some of us will have to step up and admit we were wrong. It was clear that the foreclosure fraud settlement which the Administration and most states reached with major U.S. banks was a great...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Sep 11, 2012 | Blog, Minimum Wage
The latest edition of the Economic Policy Institute's "State of Working America" report, out today, documents in sharp detail what has been for the middle-class economy a "lost decade" in which working people have fallen behind. But what's more disheartening is its...
by Jeff Bryant | Sep 11, 2012 | Blog, Education
[My guest writer today is Cynthia Liu, PhD. Cynthia launched member-supported K12NewsNetwork.com to amplify grassroots education news and provide a national platform for people to use sophisticated online organizing tools to better improve and strengthen public...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Sep 11, 2012 | Blog, Making it in America
At least one moderately good thing is coming out of the ideological sewer that is the House of Representatives these days: legislation that will require the executive branch to develop "a strategy to promote growth, sustainability, and competitiveness in the Nation's...
by Richard Eskow | Sep 11, 2012 | Blog
Both political parties have "an aversion to telling the truth," says The Washington Post. The truth? That newspaper's editors are part of a small but powerful billionaire-funded circle that seems to believe that any facts which don't support their distorted and...
