by Richard Eskow | May 4, 2015 | Blog, Economy, Progressive Vision
When asked about Baltimore last week, President Obama said this: “... if we think that we’re just gonna send the police to do the dirty work of containing the problems that arise (in our inner cities), without as a nation and as a society saying what can we do to...
by Isaiah J. Poole | May 1, 2015 | Economy
We've written time and time again about the research debunking the conservative canard that declining marriage rates contribute to high rates of poverty. Still, this argument is a hardy perennial, and with two of its leading proponents, Sens. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and...
by Leo Gerard | Apr 28, 2015 | Blog, Economy, Jobs and Growth, Progressive Vision
To give voice to 35 workers killed on the job over the past 35 years at a massive refinery in Texas City, hundreds of surviving family members, co-workers and friends gathered there last month to erect white crosses marked with their names. They conducted the ceremony...
by Robert Reich | Apr 27, 2015 | Blog, Economy, Progressive Vision
A security guard recently told me he didn’t know how much he’d be earning from week to week because his firm kept changing his schedule and his pay. “They just don’t care,” he said. A traveler I met in the Dallas Fort-Worth Airport last week said she’d been there...
by Terrance Heath | Apr 17, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism, Economy, This Is The GOP
In 2011, when he was still House Minority leader, former Rep. Eric Cantor gave a speech about what the GOP could to about inequality, which focused on “how we make sure the people at the top stay there.” Cantor has since gone to his reward, making a lot of money...
by Elizabeth Warren | Apr 16, 2015 | Blog, Economy, Financial Reform
[fve]https://youtu.be/HSpfGodTrtk[fve] Remarks at the Levy Institute’s 24th Annual Hyman P. Minsky Conference As Prepared for Delivery Thank you all for being here today. We’re here to ask a critical question at a critical time: what are we to make of Dodd-Frank five...
