by Dave Johnson | Oct 4, 2011 | Blog, Economy, Making it in America
There is a green manufacturing revolution occurring in the world -- the rest of it, anyway -- and it is on track to create millions of jobs and trillions of dollars of new wealth. The Take Back The American Dream conference session titled "Stop Outsourcing the Dream:...
by Terrance Heath | Sep 29, 2011 | Blog, Economy, Minimum Wage
Republicans have cooled on Texas governor Rick Perry as their great white hope for 2012, but their desire to make the rest of the country look more like Texas — economically, that is — hasn't. In fact, it's hotter than ever. Despite the fact that Texas leads the...
by Richard Eskow | Sep 27, 2011 | Blog, Economy
The Republicans have opened another front in their neverending war against regulations, those tools that help government protect us from greedy corporations. Leading the charge once again is Sen. Richard Shelby, the willing servant of Wall Street who weakened the...
by Robert Borosage | Sep 27, 2011 | Blog, Economy, Financial Reform
Co-written with Katrina vanden Heuvel. Originally published at The Nation. On October 3 activists from across the country will gather in Washington at the Take Back the American Dream conference, in the belief that only a citizens movement can save an American dream...
by Richard Eskow | Sep 26, 2011 | Blog, Economy
I walked around lower Manhattan for a long time last Friday looking for the #OccupyWallStreet protests. It was an experiment: Had Mayor Bloomberg and the forces of "security" hidden the demonstrators so effectively that they couldn't be found, even if you went there...
by Bill Scher | Sep 23, 2011 | Blog, Economy
Watching the Republican presidential primary debate last night, I heard many of the candidates say they'd be the second coming of Ronald Reagan. But what they said sounded a lot more like the second coming of George W. Bush, he of the "worst jobs record on record"...
