by Dave Johnson | Nov 13, 2011 | Blog, Economy
This week I travel to Chicago to cover CGI America, a special session of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI). CGI America will bring together "business, government, and civic leaders to focus on economic recovery and job growth." I have covered several Clinton Global...
by Sam Pizzigati | Nov 12, 2011 | Blog
Another super-slick global financial analysis firm has just tallied how much net worth is sloshing around in the pockets of the world’s most spectacularly wealthy. So when will the time finally come to stop the counting — and start the taxing? In today’s astoundingly...
by Greg Colvin | Nov 11, 2011 | Blog
We’ve seen the signs and heard the chants: “Abolish Corporate Personhood!” I’m very sympathetic to the cause of reducing the power of big business corporations to control our government, our economy, our consumer culture, our society, and our lives. We can’t have...
by Jeff Bryant | Nov 11, 2011 | Blog, Education
With the collapse of the No Child Left Behind policy that has driven American education policy for at least the past decade, one would think that our nation's leaders would pause to consider the faulty thinking that brought this erroneous policy to life to begin with....
by Terrance Heath | Nov 10, 2011 | Blog
This year, Veterans Day should be a day for all of us — all 99 percent of us — to stand with the 1 percent. Not, as Jim Hightower writes, the "corporate CEOs and hedge fund billionaires," but the "extra-special 1 percent of our society"...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Nov 10, 2011 | Blog
According to a document produced by Democrats serving on the congressional deficit-reduction supercommittee, the Democrats are proposing to cut $350 billion from Medicare as part of a $2.3 trillion "grand bargain" to reduce the deficit. It's time for the people to say...