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...
by Robert Borosage | Nov 1, 2011 | Blog
Rick Perry’s Plan for the 1% Today, Rick Perry released his “Cut, Balance and Grow” economic plan. From his initial press release, this is clearly a plan designed for the wealthiest Americans. Perry would eliminate the estate tax that applies only to the wealthiest...
by Dave Johnson | Nov 1, 2011 | Blog
Conservatives are always pushing for a "flat tax." It sounds so simple: One easy rate, so we all pay the same, easy to calculate... Get rid of deductions and lower the tax rates. So simple, but it turns out it is a simple trick, a scam to enrich the 1%, like so much...
