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...
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...
