by Dave Johnson | Apr 4, 2013 | Minimum Wage
Watch this opening from today's All-In With Chris Hayes. Seriously, you might even tear up like I did. I'm talking about his opening monologue about the Thursday fast-food strike in NY, and what this means. At about 1 minute into this clip he talks about why this...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 4, 2013 | Minimum Wage
Republicans criticize government spending when it is about making our lives better. Of course, by definition all government spending is done to make our lives better. (In a democracy government spending is We, the People deciding how and where to spend the money....
by Richard Eskow | Apr 3, 2013 | Minimum Wage
Years ago I heard an old Irish politician tell a joke, in that brogue only old-time Irish politicians could pull off, about a prisoner who had his tonsils removed one December. The following December the prisoner had his adenoids taken out. A year later he was...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 27, 2013 | Economy, Minimum Wage
A new study, Democracy and the Policy Preferences of Wealthy Americans, by Professors Benjamin I. Page, Jason Seawright and Larry M. Bartels sought to gauge the political and policy priorities of the wealthy, and how these concerns contrast with the concerns of the...
by Robert Borosage | Mar 21, 2013 | Back to Work Budget, Minimum Wage
Washington has been fascinated by Republican self-laceration since the 2012 election. Karl Rove triggered a circular firing squad by vowing to take out unwashed challengers in GOP primaries. Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal begged Republicans to stop being the “stupid...
by Bill Scher | Mar 18, 2013 | Minimum Wage
Today the Republican National Committee released its "autopsy" of its 2012 electoral defeat, officially titled the "Growth and Opportunity Project." On one hand, it's a serious attempt to assess how the Republican Party has become uncompetitive nationally, and...
