Economy
Tackling Student Debt and the Privatization of Education
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) has kicked off a new campaign called “Higher Ed, Not Debt” to tackle the nation’s staggering burden of student loan debt. It's part of a larger battle over education in America from pre-kindergarten up.
Close The Loophole That Lets Companies Avoid Paying Taxes
Tax-dodging companies are holding $2 trillion-plus of taxable profits outside of the U.S., on which they would owe as much as $700 billion in taxes. Congress should just make them pay what they owe.
The Audacity of Common Sense: Progressive Caucus' 'Better Off Budget'
The CPC budget offers Americans a common-sense set of choices on vital priorities. To do so, it has to take on big money and entrenched special interests. Common sense, it turns out, requires courage.
A Thought for the Web's Silver Anniversary
Let's learn from our not-so-distant past and share the gold. New technologies don't have to bring us new inequities. The prime example from our past: The advent of television in the decade right after World War II.
Jobs Proposals In The President's Sure-To-Be-Obstructed Budget
Again and again President Obama has proposed programs to help the economy and create jobs. Again and again these proposals have been obstructed by Republicans in Congress.
We Need An Economy For All
We need an economy that works for everyone, not just the top 1 percent. Income inequality is finally getting some long-overdue attention from our lawmakers, but we need less talk and more action to make our economy work for the 99 percent.
The Very Serious Paul Ryan Kicks The 47 Percent For Fun & Profit
It's election time, when the Republicans decide it's time to troll for votes among their lovely base by kicking the poor. Thus, Rep. Paul Ryan's back with a budget that re-brands the GOP's "War On the Poor" as "Poverty Reform."
The Mess on Our 'Information Superhighway'
Why should moving data around be any different from moving people? No private party, the latest Comcast merger ought to remind us, should be allowed to get rich off a basic public trust.
Help the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Help You
Every day there's a new big bank outrage. Well, today we can report two facts about life in our nation’s capital. One will surprise you in a good way. The other will make you wonder how anything so two-faced can go on in a democracy.
The Next Obama Budget, Part 2: Is the "Era of Austerity" Really Over?
President Obama's 2015 federal budget comes weeks he after declared inequality “the defining moral challenge of our time.” Early reports about the budget show no signs of such broad moral sweep or scope.
