by Robert Reich | Sep 10, 2015 | Blog, Economy, Jobs and Growth
At a time many Republican presidential candidates and state legislators are furiously focusing on private morality – what people do in their bedrooms, contraception, abortion, gay marriage – America is experiencing a far more significant crisis in public morality....
by Jim Hightower | Sep 3, 2015 | Blog, Economy, Financial Reform
Some days, I get an irresistible compulsion to tear out my hair. My latest outbreak was triggered by a New York Times opinion piece by Peter Georgescu, the former chairman of the giant PR outfit Young & Rubicam. He issued a clarion call for his corporate peers to...
by Emily Schwartz Greco | Sep 2, 2015 | Blog, Climate, Economy, Jobs and Growth
Oil permeates the whole economy. Even if you telework in a solar-powered home and tote your groceries home by bicycle, the price of petroleum affects what you spend on goods and services. This impact, of course, is uneven. The collapse from $105 per barrel last summer...
by Sam Pizzigati | Sep 1, 2015 | Blog, Economy
White House hopeful Bernie Sanders has been doing his best lately to place America’s “billionaire class” right at the center of the nation’s political discourse. But Phoenix-based attorney Bob Lord would like to see the nation start contemplating the next chapter in...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Aug 27, 2015 | Economy, Jobs and Growth
A few weeks ago, liberal critics jumped on Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush's suggestion that he could get the nation's economy to grow at a 4 percent annual rate. They not only criticized the policies he proposed to get there; they criticized the goal...
by Terrance Heath | Aug 27, 2015 | Blog, Economy
When President Obama visits New Orleans today to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, he will find the city whiter, wealthier, and more unequal than it was before the storm. Eight years ago, then senator and presidential candidate Barack Obama...
