by Isaiah J. Poole | Jul 22, 2014 | Economy
Talk about the need to get above "the snake line": A perfect example of how House Republicans operate in the realm where snakes slither and inject their poison is about to unfold this week on the House floor. The House is about to take up what Republicans call an...
by Leo Gerard | Jul 22, 2014 | Blog, Economy, Tax Reform
Early last week, the drug firm Mylan stomped on the Stars and Stripes as it ditched America for the Netherlands. Then, on Friday, the drug company AbbVie similarly renounced America. For 30 pieces of silver, it will become Irish. Medical device maker Medtronic...
by Terrance Heath | Jul 17, 2014 | Economy
Debra Harrell was trying to do the best she could. Harrell lives in North Augusta, South Carolina, and has a nine-year-old daughter. She works at McDonald’s. During that the school year, Harrell’s daughter has some place to go during the day. Harrell can go to work,...
by Emily DiVito | Jul 16, 2014 | Economy
Working in Congress might be hard – but being poor is so much harder. That’s the lesson several members of Congress and congressional staff members were able to learn in a poverty simulation held on Capitol Hill Tuesday, put together by Catholic Charities USA with the...
by Thom Hartmann | Jul 14, 2014 | Economy
It’s time to start helping the people, and stop helping Wall Street. According to an agreement announced earlier today, big bank Citigroup will pay $7 billion to settle a Department of Justice investigation into that bank’s involvement with risky subprime mortgages....
by Sam Pizzigati | Jul 14, 2014 | Economy
Analysts at the OECD, the Paris-based economic research agency, have just shared a grim prediction: If current trends “prevail,” all developed nations will show by 2060 “the same level of inequality as currently experienced by the United States.” If we let those...
