by Terrance Heath | Nov 2, 2011 | Blog
Elizabeth Warren really hit a nerve among conservatives with her winning message about the the social contract and America's economy. What I didn't know is that she did it with an assist from the right's favorite philosopher on economic policy. Just to review, here's...
by Terrance Heath | Nov 2, 2011 | Blog, Economy
Much has already been written and said about violence police used against unarmed OWS protesters in New York, Chicago, Boston, and now Oakland. From using pepper spray against peaceful protesters to lobbing flash bombs at unarmed protesters rushing to help an injured...
by Mary Bottari | Nov 2, 2011 | Blog
After two tours of duty in Iraq, 24-year-old Wisconsin native Scott Olsen managed to escape unscathed and with seven medals for valor. But Olsen was critically injured in an Occupy Oakland march last week by a police projectile. See video here. According to...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Nov 1, 2011 | Blog, Financial Reform
Sometimes, even an institution that is "too big to fail" is not too big to be influenced by energized citizens on a quest for basic fairness. With a national "move your money" day coming up on November 5 and facing the prospect of losing tens of thousands of...
by Robert Borosage | Nov 1, 2011 | Blog
Institute for America's Future co-director Robert Borosage appeared on the Tavis Smiley Show on October 31 to discuss the tax and economic policies advanced by Republican presidential candidates and their impact on middle- and low-income people. He calls the flat-tax...
by Dave Johnson | Nov 1, 2011 | Blog, Making it in America
After a decade of Republican policies that dearly cost the country's manufacturing sector, Republican Presidential candidates today offered ideas for reviving our country's jobs engine. Unfortunately those ideas are the same ideas that got us into this mess in the...
