by Leo Gerard | Nov 7, 2016 | Blog
Photo by Steve Dietz The year 2001, when I became president of the United Steelworkers union and Hillary Clinton took office as a U.S. Senator for New York, was a desperate, terrible time for steelworkers and the steel industry in this country. I turned to her, among...
by Sam Pizzigati | Nov 1, 2016 | Blog
How much income do you want to report next spring on your 2016 tax return? For most of us, that question rates as downright silly. We don’t get to choose how much income we report on our tax returns. The vast bulk of our annual income comes from our paychecks. We just...
by Robert Borosage | Oct 13, 2016 | Blog, Economy
In 2011, President Obama, speaking in the wake of Occupy Wall Street, called inequality the “defining issue of our time.” Now Jason Furman, chair of the Council on Economic Advisors, argues that Obama “narrowed the inequality gap” more than any president in 50 years....
by Richard Eskow | Sep 20, 2016 | Blog, Financial Reform
"There was no incentive to do bad things,” said Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf, after his bank was hit with $190 million in fines and restitution because employees fraudulently opened more than 2 million accounts over a five-year period without customers’ knowledge or...
by Terrance Heath | Aug 31, 2016 | Blog, Progressive Vision
Legend Preston has nightmares now. Earlier this month, the 10-year-old was playing basketball in the front yard of his Newark, New Jersey home, when the ball rolled into the street. The fifth-grader ran out into the street to retrieve the ball, and when he looked up...
