by Terrance Heath | Sep 13, 2012 | Blog, Economy, Minimum Wage
The middle class is the great engine of the American economy, but today that engine is sputtering. Our economic crisis is one half of a vicious cycle in which it and the unemployment crisis feed and perpetuate one another, hollowing out the middle-class in the...
by Richard Eskow | Aug 24, 2012 | Blog, Too Big To Jail
Every day we rise and tell ourselves this will be a good day, free of that unique combination of predation, self-pity, mediocrity and disingenousness which characterizes the modern bank executive. And every day somebody proves us wrong. Today it's William B. "Bill"...
by Terrance Heath | Aug 17, 2012 | Blog
As I've noted before, we have a saying in the south that often applies to national politics: "A hit dog will holler": A hit dog will holler: when a group of folks find themselves in a troublesome situation, more often than not, the troublemaker speaks up first to...
by Bill Scher | Aug 7, 2012 | Blog
Mitt Romney released a new ad today about welfare reform. It's a stone-cold lie. The ad's narrator says: "Under Obama's plan, you wouldn't have to work and wouldn't have to train for a job. They just send you your welfare check." That's a wild fabrication. As my...
by Terrance Heath | Jul 23, 2012 | Blog
Unless you've been off the planet for the better part of this year, you've heard all about Mitt Romney's vulture capitalist career at the helm of Bain Capital — the private equity firm founded by Romney, where he gained the experience he touts as his chief...
