by | Jul 24, 2012 | Blog, Minimum Wage
Today is a day of action to raise the minimum wage. Legislation is being introduced in Congress to increase the federal minimum wage to $9.80 an hour and index it to inflation so that people at the bottom of the wage ladder don’t keep falling behind. Join the day of...
by | Jul 24, 2012 | Blog, The Sequester
Originally posted at Capital Gains and Games. Ask the question in the headline above to a politician, and he or she is very likely to respond with something about how the pressure of the intentional and inadvertent spending cuts and tax increases that are scheduled to...
by Bill Scher | Jul 24, 2012 | Blog
On CNBC yesterday, Mitt Romney said: What the president should do is say look, we're going to extend for at least a year the--well, I'd like to see it permanent, but at least a year--the current tax environment. This sequestration related to defense spending, in...
by Leo Gerard | Jul 24, 2012 | Blog
John McCain and Mitt Romney share a secret. It’s 23 years of Mitt’s tax returns. Mitt gave them to McCain in 2008 when McCain, then the GOP presidential nominee, was vetting VP candidates. This time around, Mitt has won the GOP nomination, but now he’s hiding those 23...
by Dave Johnson | Jul 24, 2012 | Blog
(See update below.) Last week a Romney campaign ad used a fabricated quote, using doctored audio to make it appear that President Obama said something that he did not say. In Deceptive New Romney Ad Is Key Test For Media I asked if today's news media is up to the task...
by Jeff Bryant | Jul 23, 2012 | Blog, Education
When a leading conservative pundit compliments a labor union leader for getting something right, it's usually worth noticing. That's exactly what happened recently when The Washington Post's conservative op-ed columnist George Will praised Karen Lewis, the head of the...
