by Richard Eskow | Sep 30, 2011 | Blog
Progressives may sometimes feel like they're in a backdoor high-school affair with the President. You know the kind: The popular kid will make out with someone from the wrong side of the tracks. But he'll only take a rich kid from "the right kind of family" to the...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 29, 2011 | Blog, China Currency Showdown, Making it in America
The fight to get China to stop their currency manipulation is heating up. China keeps its currency very low, giving their goods a huge price advantage even before all their other trade manipulations come into play. This costs us jobs, factories, companies and entire...
by Richard Eskow | Sep 29, 2011 | Blog
The other day we spoke to RT Television about our search for the #OccupyWallStreet demonstrations in a lower Manhattan that almost felt as if it were under military siege. That led to a conversation about the protests -- what they're protesting, the importance...
by Terrance Heath | Sep 29, 2011 | Blog, Economy, Minimum Wage
Republicans have cooled on Texas governor Rick Perry as their great white hope for 2012, but their desire to make the rest of the country look more like Texas — economically, that is — hasn't. In fact, it's hotter than ever. Despite the fact that Texas leads the...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 28, 2011 | Blog
At next week's Take Back The American Dream conference I'm on the Tuesday panel titled Strategy on State Level for Buy America Campaign. Please stop by if you are at the conference. Buy American in government procurement is not a partisan issue. Polls show that people...
by Robert Borosage | Sep 28, 2011 | Blog
On Monday's "The Big Picture with Thom Hartmann", Robert Borosage discussed the need for an independent progressive movement to wrest power from the entrenched financial interests that obstruct transformational change, and how that movement will come together at the...
