by People's Action | May 6, 2016 | Breakfast
Job Growth Slows In April OurFuture.org's Robert Borosage dissects the April jobs report: "The Bureau of Labor Statistics April jobs report – 160,000 jobs, unemployment stable at 5.0 percent – is cause for concern. Job growth lags the yearlong average of 232,000 per...
by People's Action | May 5, 2016 | Breakfast
Burning Issues: Economic Growth To Fight Income Inequality William Spriggs, chief economist for the AFL-CIO, in this Burning Issues segment argues that presidential candidates who emphasize closing the federal spending deficit are ignoring a more important investment...
by People's Action | May 4, 2016 | Breakfast
GOP Trumped Cruz quits, and the Republican Party dies, says The Atlantic's Molly Ball: "...to the anti-Trump faction, the GOP they cherished for decades as a vehicle for right-of-center ideas seemed to be no more ... But the party was broken before Trump came along,...
by People's Action | May 3, 2016 | Breakfast
Burning Issues: Pentagon Spending Out of Control? Danielle Brian, the executive director of the Project on Government Oversight, highlights the reasons why our Pentagon budget is so bloated in this Burning Issues segment. Last Gasp For Cruz? Trump expected to win...
by People's Action | May 2, 2016 | Breakfast
Burning Issues: Hidden Wealth and the Rigged Financial System The Panama Papers help reveal the extent to which the global financial system is rigged to favor the wealthy and powerful, says Eryn Schornick, policy adviser at Global Witness, in this Burning Issues...
by People's Action | Apr 29, 2016 | Breakfast
Democratic Tension Builds Sanders criticizes Democratic Party's commitments in Oregon address. NYT: "Sanders spoke at length about how Democrats had not spent enough time trying to help working-class people obtain adequate health care and higher wages. 'The Democratic...
