by Richard Eskow | Dec 5, 2011 | Blog
This week 60 Minutes gave viewers a good look at the widespread criminality that created the Wall Street mortgage boom and led to our ongoing financial crisis. They also saw some of the overwhelming evidence of illegal activity on the part of big banks, and were...
by Roger Hickey | Nov 29, 2011 | Blog
Republicans have slashed public investment and blocked the President's American Jobs Act. With 14 million Americans officially unemployed and many millions more having given up finding jobs, you would think Republicans would support two measures they have backed in...
by Terrance Heath | Nov 4, 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: Jobs Report:...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Oct 6, 2011 | Blog
So tell me is this fair? We've got worker's rights in the air, and Congress hasn't put one jobs bill there. What's up, Boehner? Now I catch feeling that you don't even care about a debt ceiling. The only thing our Congress is doing is working to bring women's rights...
by Sam Pizzigati | Oct 2, 2011 | Blog
Pundits and politicians love to righteously denounce the windfall rewards that go to corporate CEOs who 'fail.' But windfalls for CEOs who 'perform,' researchers suggest, ought to worry us far more. Leo Apotheker, the just-axed CEO at computer giant Hewlett-Packard,...