by Leo Gerard | Jan 28, 2014 | Democracy, Economy
Just about everything Americans need to know about the surge of income inequality is contained in the 43-page indictment last week of former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell. The Republican governor and his wife are accused of a sleazy exchange — taking pricey gifts like a...
by Digby | Jan 27, 2014 | Economy, Making it in America, Minimum Wage, Progressive Vision, The Jobs Challenge
Responding to the depressing news that the administration has succumbed to elite pressure to "tone down" the rhetoric about wealth inequality, Damon Silvers, special counsel for the AFL-CIO, points out the uncomfortable truth: [T]he president faces a choice of...
by Sam Pizzigati | Jan 27, 2014 | Economy
Every January our global corporate and financial executive superstars, accompanied by assorted heads of state and deep thinkers, make the trek up the Alps to the Swiss village of Davos. They don’t come to party, though they do their share of imbibing. They come...
by Jackie Tortora | Jan 24, 2014 | Economy, State of the Union, The Jobs Challenge
President Barack Obama will give his annual State of the Union address to the American people next week. But what is the state of our union? The vast majority of America's working families have experienced a raw deal in recent decades. Wages are falling, the gulf...
by Robert Borosage | Jan 24, 2014 | Economy, Progressive Vision, State of the Union
The White House is signaling that one focus of President Obama’s State of the Union address on Tuesday will be on our extreme and rising levels of income inequality. He'll feature basic pocketbook issues like raising the minimum wage, extending unemployment benefits,...
by Guest Writer | Jan 23, 2014 | Economy, Trans-Pacific Partnership
By Ron Carver Many hundreds of thousands of Americans saw their good working-class jobs disappear once NAFTA took effect. And millions of Mexicans lost their ability to live off the land after cheap factory farmed corn from the United States displaced their crops in...
