by Terrance Heath | May 8, 2012 | Blog
If you blinked, you missed it. Or you probably missed it because you were fast asleep. Late last night, nearly a month after suspending his own campaign, 13 paragraphs into a 16 paragraph email to his supporters, Rick Santorum finally endorsed Mitt Romney as the...
by Dave Johnson | May 8, 2012 | Blog, Minimum Wage
The trade agreements we have entered into over the last few decades have greatly enriched the already-wealthy 1% but not worked for the benefit of most of us. They have created massive trade deficits that drain our economy. They have cost millions of manufacturing,...
by Leo Gerard | May 8, 2012 | Blog
In a famous “Laugh In” sketch, Lily Tomlin, playing arrogant operator Ernestine, telephones a customer to demand payment of $23.64 for three calls to Topeka and threatens to send a burly serviceman to the customer’s house to rip his phone out of the wall if he doesn't...
by Isaiah J. Poole | May 7, 2012 | Blog, Economy, Minimum Wage
As the political establishment prepares to do battle Friday over what is likely to be another mediocre jobs report, talk-show host Tavis Smiley this afternoon called for a living-wage jobs program as part of an all-out offensive against poverty in America. "What we...
by Richard Eskow | May 7, 2012 | Blog
And another one bites the dust. French President Nicolas Sarkozy just became the latest politician to lose his job because he wouldn't let economic experience—or political common sense—sway him from the path of austerity. Will Sarkozy's downfall help Democrats learn...
by Isaiah J. Poole | May 7, 2012 | Blog
As the Senate prepares to vote Tuesday on legislation that will stop a scheduled doubling of the rate on Stafford student loans on July 1, conservatives are engaged in a shameless (and shameful) effort to detail the effort. That's why, this afternoon and Tuesday...
