by Sam Pizzigati | Feb 12, 2012 | Blog, Minimum Wage
GOP White House hopefuls want taxes on the rich cut even lower than they've already been cut. What might a tax-the-rich-even-less future bring? The land of the kiwi offers one frightful answer. Where in the developed world do rich people pay the least in taxes? To...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 11, 2012 | Blog
For the last several days there has been an absolute furor over the Obama administration's decision to require employer health insurance plans to cover birth control. Republicans went so far as to claim that the Obama administration is "at war with religion" -- and...
by Steven Capozzola | Feb 11, 2012 | Blog, Making it in America
An analysis of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) from Alliance for American Manufacturing (AAM) Media Director Steven Capozzola... I've talked with many domestic U.S. manufacturers over the past decade or so-- mostly small and mid-sized manufacturers...
by Richard Eskow | Feb 10, 2012 | Blog
The Alonya Show with Richard Eskow on the foreclosure fraud deal Two thousand bucks for having your home illegally foreclosed on is an insult. But two billion dollars' worth of lawyers suing bankers on behalf of wronged homeowners could change everything. And a real...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 10, 2012 | Blog, Minimum Wage
"Producers" and "parasites." Cruel language justifying extreme greed seems to be mainstream now. Even Presidential candidates feel free to disparage 99% of us! In today's right-wing folklore government by We, the People is an evil thing that takes from "producers" and...
by Terrance Heath | Feb 10, 2012 | Blog
I have to admit, for a progressive being at CPAC can feel like being a "stranger in a strange land." For a black, gay progressive it's a bit like being dropped on another planet, with almost no breathable atmosphere; a very lonely, claustrophobic place. It's hard to...
