by Bill Scher | Jul 11, 2012 | Blog, Minimum Wage
My argument that liberals should bargain with corporations and not outright fight them, in the New York Times opinion piece "How Liberals Win," is not terribly populist, for better or worse. And I expected people on the populist left would not readily accept it. But I...
by Richard Eskow | Jul 11, 2012 | Blog
A new survey showing the extent of bankers' criminal inclinations, together with the "LIBOR" scandal, gives us more insight into how deeply corrupt the banking industry has become. Big banks have metastasized into a kind of "Financial/Industrial Complex" which is...
by Roger Hickey | Jul 11, 2012 | Blog
The Affordable Care Act is already working. And those who vote to repeal it will hurt the 2.5 million college age kids who are now covered through their parents' plans -- the 24 million seniors who got checkups through Medicare or the 17 million kids who can no longer...
by Terrance Heath | Jul 10, 2012 | Blog, Economy, Making it in America
While on vacation last week, I came across a CNN analysis that asked an important question, especially in light of Friday’s jobs numbers: Where are the jobs bills? Another month, another weak jobs report. And don’t expect Congress to do much about it anytime soon....
by Dave Johnson | Jul 10, 2012 | Blog, Economy
We have a jobs emergency that is hollowing out the middle class. Some say automation is the cause of our high unemployment and that it will get worse. Others say there are other structural problems and that our high unemployment is a "new normal." Perhaps these are...
