by Richard Eskow | Feb 12, 2013 | Economy
"Reviving his populist re-election message," says the Washington Post about tonight's State of the Union speech, "President Barack Obama will press a politically-divided Congress to approve more tax increases and fewer spending cuts." Messages like that are always...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Feb 11, 2013 | Economy
The previews of President Obama's State of the Union address on Tuesday promise that job creation will be a major focus – a welcome development in the face of Washington's debilitating and wrong-headed obsession with deficit-cutting. But what's really important is...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 11, 2013 | Economy, Making it in America
Before the election President Obama set a goal of doubling exports and creating one million new manufacturing jobs by the end of 2016. What has to happen for these goals to be met? In The State of the Union Stakes Bob Borosage points out the stakes and challenges that...
by Robert Borosage | Feb 10, 2013 | Economy, Minimum Wage
The president will stand before Congress for his State of the Union address as the leader of an emerging progressive majority coalition that he has helped to forge. Empowered by that coalition, he has already teed up an ambitious agenda: comprehensive immigration...
by Bill Scher | Feb 7, 2013 | Economy, The Sequester
The Wall Street Journal editorial board today is counseling Republicans that the looming across-the-board spending cuts known as the "sequester" are "unscary" and preferable to any compromise that would raise more revenue. Why should taking a meat ax to the federal...
by Richard Eskow | Feb 6, 2013 | Economy, The Sequester
Whom the gods would destroy, the old saying says, they first make mad. And there's no quicker way to become completely untethered than to read economic reports, including the latest one from the Congressional Budget Office, and then watch the political debate go on as...
