by Isaiah J. Poole | Mar 9, 2012 | Blog
Saturday is the two-year anniversary of the infamous Citizens United ruling by the Supreme Court that allowed corporations to spend unlimited amounts of money on political campaigns. Since then, our democracy has been drowning in a tsunami of corporate special...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Mar 9, 2012 | Blog
The "success" of the 1996 "welfare reform" pact between President Clinton and congressional conservatives is an hardy piece of conventional wisdom that you will hear repeated, and usually unchallenged, in the rare times that poverty comes up in the political...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Mar 9, 2012 | Blog, Economy
There is modestly good news for jobseekers in the February jobs report today from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, with the economy creating 227,000 new jobs and the unemployment rate holding steady at 8.3 percent. But once again the Obama administration and Democrats...
by Bill Scher | Mar 8, 2012 | Blog
A pattern has emerged in the Republican primaries, Romney wins among Republican voters with six-figure incomes and loses among Republican voters with five-figure incomes. We have a class war, and it's inside the Republican Party. What has happened? What is it about...
by Terrance Heath | Mar 8, 2012 | Blog, Minimum Wage
As I wrote yesterday, at this point it no longer matters whether or not Mitt Romney takes the positions he does because he truly believes they are right or to satisfy conservatives in his party. The right-wingers who own his party will demand his fealty, if Romney...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 8, 2012 | Blog
There is a "Highway Bill" amendment in front of the Senate today that closes loopholes in "Buy America" preferences when government spends money on infrastructure. This is the Brown-Merkley Amendment #1819. Call your senators now! The Brown-Merkley Amendment #1819...
