by | Mar 16, 2012 | Blog, Economy, Making it in America, Minimum Wage
The following is an official statement from the AFL-CIO Executive Council. The economic policies that led to the financial crash of 2008 and the subsequent Great Recession should have been permanently discredited by their epic failure. Instead, the Republican...
by Bill Scher | Mar 16, 2012 | Blog
First they came for the women who use contraception, and sought to deny them insurance coverage. Then they came for the women seeking abortions, and sought to force them to have ultrasounds. Now, they coming for the domestic violence survivors, and threatening to...
by Richard Eskow | Mar 16, 2012 | Blog
This week people have been buzzing about Goldman Sachs executive Greg Smith's high-profile resignation from Goldman and his description of the way that company's ethics and morals have declined over the last decade and more, especially under current CEO Lloyd...
by Terrance Heath | Mar 15, 2012 | Blog
Yesterday, I wrote that Mitt Romney will have a long, humiliating road to the GOP convention. Michael Tomasky has detailed the stops along and humiliations along that road, and it's not pretty. He predicts Romney may end up with enough delegates to win the nomination,...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 15, 2012 | Blog
People are organizing to protest in front of Apple stores timed to coincide with the iPad 3 launch tomorrow, to remind people that Apple is using exploited Chinese workers to build their products. I have been writing about the situation of exploited Apple workers in...
