by Sam Pizzigati | Oct 24, 2011 | Blog
Sam Pizzigati edits Too Much, the online weekly on excess and inequality published by the Washington, D.C.-based Institute for Policy Studies, where the following originally appeared. Can a small army of policy wonks, working in a bipartisan political environment...
by Richard Eskow | Oct 21, 2011 | Blog
The President says he understands the frustration behind the Occupy Wall Street movement. That's nice. But the anger will keep growing as long as the government keeps handing out free passes instead of perp walks to bankers at serial corporate criminals like...
by Terrance Heath | Oct 20, 2011 | Blog, Economy
"Get a job!" It's the right-wing's favorite retort to protesters on the left. It goes back at least as far as the 1960's and 1970's, and implies that only "dirty hippies" who are too lazy to work — and would rather mooch off the government and be subsidized people in...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Oct 20, 2011 | Blog, Economy
As the Senate prepares for a vote on a $35 billion bill to support hiring of teachers and first responders around the country, conservative are pillorying Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid for a bit of inartful truth-telling. After all, it is so much easier for Senate...
by Terrance Heath | Oct 20, 2011 | Blog, Economy
Telling people to "Get a job!" on one hand, while telling businesses to "Stop creating jobs!" on the other, and then blaming the unemployed for their jobless state sounds more than a little contradictory. If an individual person managed all three,...
