by Richard Eskow | Mar 2, 2011 | Blog
In Part I of this series we discussed the media's failure to accurately report the scope and nature of the banker crime wave around foreclosure fraud, and talked about the confusion over reports that the Administration has proposed a framework for settling the...
by Robert Borosage | Mar 2, 2011 | Blog, Economy
Demanding bold solutions to today's jobs crisis.Read the series » Register for The Summit on Jobs & America's Future » March Madness has descended on Washington – and I’m not talking college basketball. With 25 million people in need of full-time work, in...
by | Mar 2, 2011 | Blog
Demanding bold solutions to today's jobs crisis.Read the series » Register for The Summit on Jobs & America's Future » Leo Hindrey, Jr. will be a featured speaker at the March 10 "Summit For Jobs and America's Future." The following originally appeared at The...
by Terrance Heath | Mar 2, 2011 | Blog
It probably seems like I'm "a day late and a dollar short," with a post about Ireland's economic disaster days after the New York Times story about the high cost of austerity measures in Ireland echoed all over the progressive blogosphere. But I'm not. It just took me...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Mar 2, 2011 | Blog
It keeps getting recited as if it is holy writ: Public sector employees have better pay and benefits than private sector employees. And with that belief firmly planted in the public mind, private sector workers who have seen their own wages and benefits eroded...
by Bill Scher | Mar 2, 2011 | Uncategorized
Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what progressives need to effect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs, health care, green energy, financial reform, affordable education and retirement security. MORNING MESSAGE: End Washington's...
by Robert Borosage | Mar 2, 2011 | Blog, Economy
"The American people's priorities are clear," said Boehner spokesman Michael Steel. "They want to keep the government open, and they want to cut spending." Uh. no. Americans have said agan and again their chief priority is JOBS and the the economy. It is bizarre. For...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Mar 1, 2011 | Blog
The stream of economic experts who are denouncing the budget slashing that the House of Representatives did last month has just turned into a flood. Today the Economic Policy Institute and the Center for American Progress jointly released a statement signed by nearly...
by Bill Scher | Mar 1, 2011 | Blog, Economy
Florida State Sen. Thad Altman describes himself as a "conservative Republican" and a "strict constitutionalist." Unlike so many conservative Republican lawmakers and judges who claim to abide by the constitution while skipping the clauses that get in the way of their...
by Bill Scher | Mar 1, 2011 | Blog
Less than two months ago, the Republican Governors Association lectured President Obama on state flexibility for pursuing health reform: "The one-size-fits-all approach to healthcare adopted last year does not work in the states and imposes unnecessary financial...
by Bill Scher | Mar 1, 2011 | Uncategorized
Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what progressives need to effect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs, health care, green energy, financial reform, affordable education and retirement security. MORNING MESSAGE: The GOP's Budget...
by Terrance Heath | Mar 1, 2011 | Blog, Economy
The Republican response to the painful consequences of their budget cuts runs the gamut from "So be it," to "So what?" "So be it," said Speaker John Boehner to news that Republican budget cuts would slash over 200,000 jobs. House Majority...
by Richard Eskow | Feb 28, 2011 | Blog
Call it a "general strike" ... from above. Republicans in Congress are trying to paralyze the government with their new budget bill, using a "disrupt and defeat" strategy to prevent it from delivering services promised to the the nation's citizens and required under...
by Richard Eskow | Feb 28, 2011 | Blog
George Orwell would be proud. The latest Washington catchphrase deserves a place of honor in the 1984 lexicon, right between "War Is Peace" and "Love Is Hate." It's a virus of the language that's spreading faster than the stomach flu. "The President's budget punts on...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Feb 28, 2011 | Blog, Economy
Mark Zandi of Moody's Analytics today confirms what several other experts are saying about the slash-and-burn budget antics of House conservatives: The budget cuts being pushed by House Speaker John Boehner and the Tea Party-possessed House of Representatives will not...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 28, 2011 | Blog, Economy
There are good jobs and there are crappy jobs. There are burger-flipping jobs and there are skilled trades and professions. There are jobs that pay well and have benefits and jobs that don’t. There is even the job you had, now paying less, with no benefits. Much of...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 28, 2011 | Blog, Economy
As you read this, remember what Republicans did just a few weeks ago to force huge tax cuts for the wealthy, adding as much as $900 to budget deficits. Also, keep in mind that we spend more on military than every other country combined. People Want Job Creation Not...
by Bill Scher | Feb 28, 2011 | Uncategorized
Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what progressives need to effect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs, health care, green energy, financial reform, affordable education and retirement security. MORNING MESSAGE: Beyond Wisconsin....
by Bill Scher | Feb 28, 2011 | Blog, Economy
Demanding bold solutions to today's jobs crisis.Read the series » Register for The Summit on Jobs & America's Future » Over the weekend, progressives rallied in front of all 50 statehouses in support of the protesting Wisconsin civil servants, but with a message...
by Sam Pizzigati | Feb 27, 2011 | Blog
Mega-millionaire residents of Manhattan's finest luxury towers pay less of their income in federal taxes than the janitors in their towers do. Once upon a time, we had a law that discouraged that distinction. By Sam Pizzigati How much of their mega-million incomes did...
by Robert Borosage | Feb 26, 2011 | Blog
Are we headed towards banks too big to save? Check out Simon Johnson on "Geithner's Gamble" (below, emphasis added.) Big banks seem like Mr. Magoo of the old cartoons, blindly careening from one crack up to another, leaving ruin in their wake. Now they are headed back...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 25, 2011 | Blog
We are all under attack, from public employees in Wisconsin and several other states, to the DC budget-cutters (just a few weeks after giving a huge tax cut to the rich) killing off NPR, slashing the EPA, consumer protections and so many other things government does...
by Bill Scher | Feb 25, 2011 | Blog
Speaker John Boehner is presently soliciting questions on YouTube and Twitter (using the hashtag #askthespeaker), and he will answer the ones which get the most votes from his YouTube page on Tuesday. I have a few. I bet you do too. * If you really believe that "we’re...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Feb 25, 2011 | Blog
When Congress goes back into session next week, the Senate will be under pressure to compromise with the House on a sweeping set of cuts to the 2011 budget. But there is little room for compromise with a budget plan that in so many ways does serious harm to people and...
by | Feb 25, 2011 | Blog
Demanding bold solutions to today's jobs crisis.Read the series » Register for The Summit on Jobs & America's Future » Originally posted at New Deal 2.0. Representative Paul Ryan (R-WI), head of the House Budget Committee, says that reducing the federal...
by Bill Scher | Feb 25, 2011 | Blog, Economy
Demanding bold solutions to today's jobs crisis.Read the series » Register for The Summit on Jobs & America's Future » Florida Gov. Rick Scott renewed his opposition to a federally-funded high-speed rail line yesterday, rejecting a proposal to shift responsibility...
by Leo Gerard | Feb 25, 2011 | Blog
Demanding bold solutions to today's jobs crisis.Read the series » Register for The Summit on Jobs & America's Future » It’s illegal in America now to buy or sell a human being, but a recorded telephone conversation between a Republican governor and a guy he...
by Bill Scher | Feb 25, 2011 | Blog
Last night on "The Big Picture with Thom Hartmann" I discussed why the Wisconsin fight matters to all of us, along with Think Progress' Zaid Jilani. Check out the clip below.
by Bill Scher | Feb 25, 2011 | Uncategorized
Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what progressives need to effect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs, health care, green energy, financial reform, affordable education and retirement security. MORNING MESSAGE: 5 Ways...
by | Feb 24, 2011 | Blog
The Dartmouth College Republicans and the Dartmouth College Democrats have teamed up to fight a New Hampshire bill that seeks to disenfranchise students who attend college outside of their hometown. The bill, sponsored by Gregory Sorg (R-Grafton) specifically...
by Richard Eskow | Feb 24, 2011 | Blog
We discussed the implications of the Madison movement in an interview on "Russia Today" television yesterday. The interviewer started out by asking me about the President's political position before we got into the media's failure to provide the public with a broader...
by Mary Bottari | Feb 24, 2011 | Blog
Madison -- Embattled Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker came under fire today after news broke about statements he made in a 20-minute phone call from a Boston-area alternative news reporter posing as David Koch, a billionaire whose PAC directly supported Walker and who...
by Terrance Heath | Feb 24, 2011 | Blog, Economy, Making it in America
In a post about Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker's bid to strip public employee unions of collective bargaining — the most important and effective tool for protecting workers — Van Jones wrote: If a foreign power conspired to inflict this much damage on America's first...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 24, 2011 | Blog
Do you want to show your support for working people? Do you want to show your opposition to tax cuts for the rich forcing cuts in the the things government does for We, the People? Here is your chance. There are SAVE THE AMERICAN DREAM rallies planned in all 50 states...
by Richard Eskow | Feb 24, 2011 | Blog, Financial Reform
Sometimes it's worth looking at current events through the eyes of a historian chronicling the end of an age, or those of a district attorney in a time of corruption. Come to think of it, the two perspectives aren't all that different. However you look at it, calling...
by Bill Scher | Feb 24, 2011 | Uncategorized
Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what progressives need to effect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs, health care, green energy, financial reform, affordable education and retirement security. MORNING MESSAGE: Who's Behind The...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 23, 2011 | Blog
What is the real agenda of the budget-cutters? Are they really trying to bring the country back from the edge of financial ruin? Or did they bring about the appearance of a borrowing crisis to create a public panic that enables them to impose "solutions" that change...
by Robert Borosage | Feb 23, 2011 | Blog
VIDEO: Why Others Should Join The Wisconsin Protests Campaign for America's Future co-director Robert Borosage joins FireDogLake editor Jane Hamsher and Wisconsin AFL-CIO secretary-treasurer Stephanie Bloomingdale on Cenk Uygur's show on MSNBC February 22. "It's now...
by Bill Scher | Feb 23, 2011 | Uncategorized
Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what progressives need to effect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs, health care, green energy, financial reform, affordable education and retirement security. MORNING MESSAGE: Wisconsin Is The...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Feb 22, 2011 | Blog
Dig into the numbers of the latest Washington Post/Kaiser Family Foundation/Harvard University poll on the recession and race and it's easy to see how the Obama administration and congressional Democrats have blown it on winning the allegiance of the white working...
