by Dave Johnson | Sep 23, 2011 | Blog
Just weeks after the "debt-ceiling" hostage-taking, forcing trillions to be cut out of the economy, the hostage-takers are at it again. Now they are threatening a government shutdown, demanding even more cuts in the "continuing resolution" that keeps the government...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 22, 2011 | Blog
Oil-backed conservatives have been absolutely ecstatic over the collapse of American solar-power company Solyndra and the rise of China as the dominant country in green energy, because they think they can turn this into a story that makes President Obama and...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 22, 2011 | Blog, Economy, Making it in America
For more on how we can fight for green jobs, hear Rep. Chris Murphy, United Steelworkers' Leo Gerard, Alliance for American Manufacturing's Scott Paul and Leo Hindery, Jr. at the Oct. 3-5 Take Back the American Dream conference. Oil-backed Republicans are doing...
by Scott Hochberg | Sep 22, 2011 | Blog
For more on how we can save Social Security from conservative attacks, hear Rep. Jan Schakowsky, Campaign for America's Future's Roger Hickey, Strengthen Social Security's Eric Kingson and more at the Take Back the American Dream conference, Oct. 3-5. At least some of...
by Terrance Heath | Sep 22, 2011 | Blog
This has been posted all over the progressive blogosphere by now, but it bears reposting and repeating. Elizabeth Warren, who was passed over to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau — her own brainchild — is now a candidate for the Massachusetts Senate seat...
