by Dave Johnson | Nov 26, 2012 | Blog, Economy
I haven't done this before, but I think today's email from CAF is so spot on that I am going to reprint it here: The statisticians were right about the election. The scientists were right about the weather. And the economists are right about … the economy. 350...
by Bill Scher | Nov 20, 2012 | Blog, Economy
A new advertising campaign from three major unions is targeting key congresspeople with a clear message: the way to reduce the deficit is by "creating jobs and growing our economy" not by "cutting programs that families rely on most."...
by Roger Hickey | Nov 18, 2012 | Blog, Economy
For years now, various gangs of senators - the Gang of Eight, or Six, or 14 - have declared dire deficit emergencies and called for austerity: Cut public spending and cut Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security benefits, they tell us. And, bizarrely, most of these...
by Richard Eskow | Nov 16, 2012 | Blog, Economy
Last week the voters delivered their verdict on what has come to be known as "the Republican War on Women": They're against it. We've had decades of relentless class warfare from above, in the form of wealth distribution from the many to the few. Finally,...
by Robert Borosage | Nov 15, 2012 | Blog, Economy, Financial Reform
The following was originally published in The Nation. With the election behind us, President Obama and the lame-duck Congress return to Washington to face a fiscal showdown, occasioned by automatic tax hikes and spending cuts scheduled to kick in after the first of...
by Robert Borosage | Nov 15, 2012 | Blog, Economy
There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning. —Warren Buffett In 2012, class warfare broke out in American politics. And from the president to key Senate races, the middle class won. Today the Campaign for...
