by Robert Borosage | Jun 5, 2012 | Blog, Economy
Everyone is talking jobs and saying nothing. The inadequate recovery is sputtering and no one is doing anything. In the war on unemployment, no one has picked up a gun. We’re going through the motions, waiting for the misery to ratchet up, the cities to blow,...
by Richard Eskow | Jun 5, 2012 | Blog, Economy
At the June 18-20 Take Back the American Dream conference, we'll organize to stop Simpson-Bowles from passing Congress in the December "lame duck" session. Hear Robert L. Borosage, Van Jones and Melissa Harris-Perry on "Winning in November – So We Can Win in December...
by Dave Johnson | Jun 1, 2012 | Blog, Economy
Combine a too-optimistic administration with a Republican Party that is sabotaging the economy as a campaign strategy and what do you get? You get today's terrible jobs report. First, though, remember that the economy lost 818,000 jobs in the last month of the Bush...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 1, 2012 | Blog, Economy
Today's unemployment report, reflecting an anemic increase of only 69,000 new jobs in May and an unemployment rate up to 8.2 percent, is the best evidence yet that conservative obstruction measures that would put Americans back to work is crippling the economy. That...
by Tula Connell | May 31, 2012 | Blog, Economy
Ever see a construction worker hanging off a bridge while making essential repairs and wonder what it takes to do a job like that?The same rare skills, along with many others, also are necessary to build and maintain the nation’s growing number of wind turbines—and...
by Terrance Heath | May 30, 2012 | Blog, Economy
When I read about the recent polls indicating a huge shift among African-Americans towards supporting same-sex marriage — a Public Policy Polling survey showing that 57% of African Americans say they're likely to support Maryland's marriage equality law, and a...
