by Dave Johnson | Jul 18, 2016 | Blog, Economy
House Speaker Paul Ryan in an NPR interview Monday acknowledged that the poor are victims of our economic system. The interview sounds reasonable, almost soothing, until you examine what Ryan is really saying. After acknowledging that poverty is systemic, he turns...
by Amanda Ballantyne | Jul 15, 2016 | Blog, Economy
In this time of partisan gridlock, it's rare to see a federal policy move than can be of real help to small businesses and their customers. The rule recently released by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) aimed at curbing predatory payday lending has the...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jul 7, 2016 | Economy
You've likely seen these brands as you walked the aisles of an organic and natural foods supermarket: Silk. So Delicious. Horizon Organic. Wallaby Organic. Earthbound Farm. If you saw these brands, it probably did not occur to you that these brands were already under...
by Richard Eskow | Jul 6, 2016 | Blog, Economy
On July 1, at the start of the Independence Day weekend, we learned that income inequality in this country became even worse last year. Economic inequality produces scars that last a lifetime – and even longer. That’s one reason why President Obama said in 2013 that...
by Sam Pizzigati | Jul 1, 2016 | Blog, Economy
Later this summer, just a few weeks after this year’s Fourth of July celebrations, Democrats will be gathering in Philadelphia to make some presidential nomination history. Democrats — small-d variety — gathered in Philadelphia soon after the original Fourth of July,...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 30, 2016 | Blog, Economy, Jobs and Growth
"You never let a serious crisis go to waste," Rahm Emanuel infamously said when he was President Obama's White House chief of staff. So it is with the legislation that President Obama signs into law Thursday that offers Puerto Rico a process for managing its crushing...
