by Terrance Heath | Jul 23, 2012 | Blog
Unless you've been off the planet for the better part of this year, you've heard all about Mitt Romney's vulture capitalist career at the helm of Bain Capital — the private equity firm founded by Romney, where he gained the experience he touts as his chief...
by Sam Pizzigati | Jul 23, 2012 | Blog
All those official government stats on the maldistribution of wealth in the United States — and the world — vastly understate the actual extent of our contemporary inequality, says a blockbuster new study on global tax havens. Are America’s rich getting richer?...
by | Jul 23, 2012 | Blog, Making it in America
American manufacturing is like apple pie to American voters: we love it and want more of it regardless of our politics, race, gender, income, or hometown. If you live in a swing state like Ohio, you already know that, because both presidential candidates have flooded...
by Richard Eskow | Jul 23, 2012 | Blog
Nowadays we outsource our madness to the movies. The violence enacted there channels our irrational rages and tantalizes us with our own dark fantasies until they're finally fulfilled in a climax of third-act satisfaction. Some say that Jesus died for our sins; action...
by Richard Eskow | Jul 22, 2012 | Blog, Minimum Wage
Economic issues make some people's eyes glaze over, so we'll put this plainly: Today's minimum wage is epic in its injustice and Dickensian in its cruelty. It's a shame that Dickens himself isn't here to write about it. Oh, and we almost forgot: Keeping it this low...
