by Bill Scher | Jul 20, 2012 | Blog
Conservatives are taking a big risk throwing a hissy fit over the new HHS state waiver initiative to experiment with welfare-to-work methods. Charging President Obama with scheming to "gut" welfare reform's mission of moving aid recipients into the workforce is the...
by Dave Johnson | Jul 20, 2012 | Blog, Economy
On Thursday, Senate Republicans FILIBUSTERED to block a bill ending the tax breaks companies get when they send our jobs out of the country -- and giving a few breaks to companies that hire here. The question now: will this get reported to the public? Will they be...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jul 20, 2012 | Blog
Congressional Progressive Caucus leaders Reps. Raul Grijalva, D-Ariz., and Keith Ellison, D-Minn., are trying to get political support for a congressional resolution that would repudiate any "grand bargain" on the federal deficit that cuts Social Security, Medicare or...
by Dave Johnson | Jul 19, 2012 | Blog
The Romney campaign has released an astonishingly deceptive new ad, containing a blatant, flat-out lie. The new ad actually edits together snippets of words and sentences to make it sound as if President Obama said something he did not say, and then attacks him for...
by Terrance Heath | Jul 19, 2012 | Blog, Economy, Minimum Wage
Scratch the surface of just about any economic debate this election year, and you'll find one issue that goes all the way to the core: the yawning gap between the 1% and the rest of us, as skyrocketing income inequality. A new report from the National Employment Law...
