by Dave Johnson | Jan 17, 2012 | Blog, Economy, Making it in America
The United States is losing ever more jobs and becoming ever less competitive as our universities are cut back and companies move R&D jobs to Asia. We lost 687,000 high-tech manufacturing jobs lost since 2000. Universities cut back 20% on public research. 85% of...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 17, 2012 | Blog
In the fight over what little soul is left of the Republican Party, Mitt Romney has shown his willingness to double down on racial injustice. Romney did so in his support for the expansion of laws that deny people convicted of felonies the right to vote after they...
by Dave Johnson | Jan 17, 2012 | Blog
Congress is back in session and Republicans are right back to shutdown threats. Once again Republicans are trying to use shutdown threats to bust unions (the 99%), once again doing it for pay, for a specific company (the 1%). Funding for the Federal Aviation...
by Terrance Heath | Jan 17, 2012 | Blog
It looks like the old joke about the weather — "If you don't like the weather, wait five minutes and it'll change" — is also true about Newt Gingrich. If you don't like this Newt Gingrich, wait five minutes and he'll change. When it comes to his attack on Mitt...
by Sam Pizzigati | Jan 14, 2012 | Blog
The rich don't much like paying taxes when tax rates run high. They don't much like paying taxes when tax rates run low either. Any tax system that subjects rich people to high taxes is asking for trouble. Or so the politicians who cater to people of means incessantly...
