by Thom Hartmann | Jan 22, 2014 | Economy, Minimum Wage, The Jobs Challenge
Economic inequality is a major threat to human progress. According to a new report from Oxfam, 85 people control the same amount of wealth as half the population of the entire world, and the top one percent has 65 times the wealth of the bottom half. This...
by Guest Writer | Jan 20, 2014 | Economy, Progressive Vision
By Bob Lord As we commemorate Martin Luther King Jr.’s 85th birthday, we’ve all come to know his dream. Above all else, he dreamed that one day this nation would rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men...
by Terrance Heath | Jan 17, 2014 | Conservatism, Economy, Making it in America
Bucking the conservative tendency to blame and punish the poor, and the trend towards criminalizing homelessness, Utah has come up with simple, cost-effective solution for homelessness. Earlier this month, Hawaii State representative Tom Bower (D) began walking the...
by Terrance Heath | Jan 17, 2014 | Conservatism, Economy, Financial Reform
In 2010, the Heritage Foundation ranked Ireland in the top 10 counties in its "Economic Independence Index." Four years later, conservative austerity has wrecked Ireland's economy and other European economies. The "luck of the Irish" ran out in 2008, when the "Celtic...
by Thom Hartmann | Jan 13, 2014 | Economy, Progressive Vision
More than 300,000 West Virginia residents are facing their fifth day of coping with a massive chemical spill, and FEMA is helping state and local agencies ensure that residents have access to safe drinking water. That means tax payers are already covering the cost of...
by Joshua Holland | Jan 9, 2014 | Economy, The Jobs Challenge, Trans-Pacific Partnership
Fool Me Once: 20 Years of NAFTA Show Why the Trans-Pacific Partnership Must be Stopped (via Moyers & Company) The post-NAFTA era has been marked by growing inequality, declining job security and new leverage for corporations to attack government regulations...
