by Robert Borosage | Aug 21, 2012 | Blog, Economy, Minimum Wage
As the Republican convention approaches, “Etch-a-Sketch” Mitt Romney continues to reshape himself. Overnight, he’s for allowing abortion in cases of rape and incest, after being against it. Now he’s the savior of Medicare after being the scourge of the entitlement...
by Leo Gerard | Aug 21, 2012 | Blog
GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney foolishly revived the dust up about his income tax secrecy last week. He claimed he paid at least 13 percent, an assertion easy enough for him to prove by releasing his tax documents. But he’s refusing to do that. He called the...
by Bill Scher | Aug 20, 2012 | Blog
At a New Hampshire town hall today, Paul Ryan said that if we "cut spending" will avoid European austerity, and America will be the "port in the storm of the global economy." In other words, if we adopt radical austerity now, we won't have radical austerity later. As...
by Jeff Bryant | Aug 20, 2012 | Blog, Education
Just like you can count on "Back to School" season cranking up retail sales this time of year, you can also count on it bringing on a new volley of criticism aimed at school teachers and their unions. Leading off the charge this year was an op-ed written by ex-NBC...
by Dave Johnson | Aug 20, 2012 | Blog, Climate
There has been a recent flurry of propaganda attacks on wind and solar energy by oil-and-coal-backed conservatives. A vitally important tax credit to help build a renewable energy industry in this country expires at the end of this year without Congressional action,...
