by Isaiah J. Poole | Mar 29, 2012 | Blog, Minimum Wage
The Progressive Caucus Budget for All, the embodiment of the progressive vision for rebuilding the economy, was voted down overwhelmingly on the House floor Thursday. But that vote was just the beginning of what should be an epic debate over the choice between...
by Robert Borosage | Mar 29, 2012 | Blog, Economy, Minimum Wage
In 2010, as the economy began its slow recovery from the Great Recession, a new study shows the richest 1 percent of Americans captured a staggering 93 percent of all income growth, while the incomes of most Americans stagnated. Ninety-three percent. Occupy that. The...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 29, 2012 | Blog
“EMPLOYEES OF U.S. SUBSIDIARIES OF GERMAN COMPANIES, ESPECIALLY T-MOBILE USA, SHOULD BE ABLE TO EXERCISE THEIR UNRESTRICTED RIGHT TO OPT FOR ORGANIZED REPRESENTATION IN THE COMPANY WITHOUT FEAR.” In an ad in the NY Times yesterday, 11 leading German legal scholars and...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 28, 2012 | Blog
The new Republican budget (called the "Ryan Budget" by DC insiders) reflects current electoral reality: billionaires and corporations now finance candidates, and we get government of, by and for billionaires and corporations. The rest of us no longer matter, except as...
by Greg Colvin | Mar 28, 2012 | Blog
Reintroducing the Citizens Election Amendment…. Version 2.0 Since the U.S. Supreme Court decided the Citizens United case two years ago, saying that the Constitution gives corporations the right to spend without limit to influence American elections, people have been...
by Richard Eskow | Mar 28, 2012 | Blog
The world's been turned upside down by the Supreme Court hearings on the individual insurance mandate. Left is right, right is wrong, and the future is uncertain. There are only two approaches to health care that we know are constitutional: a European-style...
