by Terrance Heath | Sep 13, 2013 | Conservatism, Economy, Progressive Vision, The Jobs Challenge
Ronald Brownstein, at the National Journal, has crunched numbers and demographic trends to explain why the GOP can't win by pinning all its hopes on white voters. Brownstein's work raises an important question: Can the GOP craft an economic message that keeps white...
by Roger Hickey | Sep 13, 2013 | Economy
Robert Reich, former labor secretary and friend of Campaign for America's Future, is the star of a new film, "Inequality for All." It is an important and very entertaining film. It won the Special Jury Award for Achievement in Filmmaking at Sundance. And it is opening...
by Thom Hartmann | Sep 12, 2013 | Economy, Minimum Wage, The Jobs Challenge
It's no longer just an expression – the rich are getting richer, and the rest of us are being shut out of the game. According to a new report from economists Emmanuel Saez and Thomas Piketty, the top ten percent of income earners in our nation took home more than...
by Erica Seifert | Sep 12, 2013 | Economy, The Jobs Challenge
Last week, our friends at Pew released a new report detailing the rise in the number children living with grandparents since the onset of the recession. According to the Pew report, 10 percent of children lived with a grandparent in 2011, and the vast majority of...
by Derek Pugh | Sep 11, 2013 | Economy, Student Debt Relief
Don’t be fooled by the U.S. News & World Report’s annual college rankings. The Internet is already abuzz over which college trampled the other for the race to the top of the list, released this morning. With the usual suspects taking the lead, like Harvard and...
by Dean Baker | Sep 9, 2013 | Economy, Financial Reform
All knowledgeable D.C. types know that the TARP and Fed bailout of Wall Street banks five years ago saved us from a second Great Depression. Like most things known by knowledgeable Washington types, this is not true. Just to remind folks, the Wall Street banks were on...
