by Terrance Heath | Oct 14, 2011 | Blog
He will not be the GOP nominee, but Herman Cain is on a roll. In Cain, the GOP appears to have finally found it's "Great Black-or-Brown Hope." Bobby Jindal looked like a promising candidate for a hot minute or two, before his abysmal State of the Union response. Then...
by Bill Scher | Oct 14, 2011 | Blog, Economy
One week after the President admonished Republicans for lacking a serious alternative to his American Jobs Act, Senate Republicans introduced what they call a "jobs" bill yesterday. ABC News, the Washington Post and others reported on this development as if this meant...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 14, 2011 | Blog, Economy
The Take Back The American Dream conference opened Tuesday by discussing the Contract for the American Dream. Deepak Bhargava of the Center for Community Change began by saying that "there is a movement in America today and it’s not the Tea Party, it is the American...
by Robert Borosage | Oct 14, 2011 | Blog
Thousands rally to defend worker rights in Wisconsin, then nearly a million force a referendum in Ohio to repeal a similar assault. Tens of thousands fill congressional town meetings to demand "Jobs, not Cuts" in August. Over 100,000 join in vetting provisions for a...
by Sara Robinson | Oct 14, 2011 | Blog
On Sunday, February 13, 2011, a few hundred union members gathered at the state capitol building in Madison, WI to confront Gov. Scott Walker over a bill designed to strip public employees of their right to organize. The next day, they were joined by over a thousand...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 14, 2011 | Blog, Economy
After the