by Richard Eskow | Jan 13, 2014 | Retirement Security
Democrats have been pleading with President Obama not to cut Social Security for years. Until now, most of the public pleas have come from Democratic voters. Now they’re coming from Democratic senators. You can’t blame them. In 2010 polls showed that Democrats blew a...
by Richard Eskow | Dec 12, 2013 | Retirement Security
“When you are old and grey and full of sleep,” the William Butler Yeats poem begins, “And nodding by the fire …” Our culture has always been emotional – sentimental, even – about old age. So when did older people become The Enemy? Last week a judge ruled that Detroit...
by Richard Long | Dec 11, 2013 | Budget Talks, Retirement Security
There was one small victory that progressives could claim from the otherwise troubling congressional budget deal that was announced Tuesday: Social Security and Medicare were left untouched. Credit goes to progressives who made calls, signed petitions and showed up at...
by Thom Hartmann | Dec 4, 2013 | Conservatism, Democracy, Economy, Health, Retirement Security
The American Legislative Exchange Council has one heck of an agenda for 2014, and it all centers around one idea – profit over people. ALEC will meet this week in Washington, DC, for its “States and Nation Policy Summit.” The event is a closed-door conference...
by Dave Johnson | Nov 26, 2013 | Budget Talks, Economy, Progressive Vision, Retirement Security, The Jobs Challenge, This Is The GOP
Congress is again fighting over the budget with Republicans now demanding cuts in federal employee benefits. Is this really about the budget? Or is it about destroying government? Meanwhile hundreds of billions of taxes owed by corporations remain uncollected. The...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Nov 19, 2013 | Retirement Security
USA Today published an editorial today headlined, "Rein in reckless public pensions." Actually, for the sake of workers and an economy that works for working people, the message should be: Rein in reckless editorial writers, and the one-percenters for whom they are...
