by Scott Hochberg | Nov 10, 2011 | Blog
The 12-member Super Committee is down to its final two weeks to produce a plan to cut at least $1.2 trillion from the federal budget. According to recent reports, both Democratic and Republican proposals have contained sizable cuts from Social Security, Medicare, and...
by Terrance Heath | Nov 10, 2011 | Blog
By now you've probably heard about the new supplemental poverty measure produced by the Census Bureau, which says 49.1 million Americans are living in poverty, compared to 46.2 million under the official measure. But did you know that the supplemental measure blows a...
by Richard Eskow | Nov 10, 2011 | Blog
It's great when we can disagree in a civilized way, but it's getting pretty hard to avoid the conclusion that the phrase "right-wing logic," as delivered by the GOP and mimicked by Mitt Romney, has become the mother of all oxymorons. They tell us corporations are...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Nov 9, 2011 | Blog
Many of the efforts around the country to advance an extreme, right-wing, corporatist agenda on the public were repudiated Tuesday night. The message is clear: An informed and energized 99 percent can prevail over those in the 1 percent who are working to strip them...
by Dave Johnson | Nov 9, 2011 | Blog
A huge part of the reason we can't get out of this unemployment slump is the trade deficit. We don't buy American and neither do our "trade partners." We buy from them, they sell to us -- that's not "trade." Stimulus means we buy from them. Cutting taxes means the...
by Bill Scher | Nov 9, 2011 | Blog
While the traditional media continue to chase the Herman Cain reality TV show presidential campaign into the abyss, that other Republican presidential candidate polling at the top also keeps saying really stupid things. Except that when Mitt Romney says stupid things,...
