GOP House Choose Big Oil Over Granny
Jim Hightower By Jim Hightower Author, radio commentator, America’s number one populist Republican congressional leaders don’t seem to be the quickest bunnies in the litter. Having taken their blunt...
View ArticleHoyer Blows A Chance To Advance A Jobs Agenda—Even His Own
Isaiah J. Poole by Isaiah J. Poole Editor, OurFuture.org House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer laid out his bottom-line principles for how he believed the deficit should be addressed in a speech today before...
View ArticleThe Beatification of Senator Simpson
Dean Baker By Dean Baker Co-Director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research Former Wyoming Senator Alan Simpson has been a holy terror ever since he was appointed by President Obama to co-chair...
View ArticleSen. Bernie Sanders: We Will Not Balance the Budget on the Backs of Working...
By Bernie Sanders U.S. Senator from Vermont Statement Delivered on the Floor of the United States Senate — June 27, 2011: Mr. President, this is a pivotal moment in the history of our country. In the...
View ArticleNurses, Unions Propose Wall Street Tax
National Nurses United, a 165,000 member union, is leading organized labor in the United States in a challenge to Wall Street, its practices, and what the nurses call Wall Street’s sway over...
View ArticleSanders: Hands Off Social Security
Sen. Bernie Sanders U.S. Senator from VermontAs Social Security emerged as a target in White House budget negotiations, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) insisted that the retirement program must not be cut...
View ArticleTell Congress “No” to Super Committee Cuts in Social Security, Medicare,...
By Mike Hall AFL-CIO Senior WriterThe AFL-CIO is launching a campaign and gearing up its 700,000 online activists to tell Congress that the proposals by both Republicans and Democrats on the federal...
View ArticleThe Shrill and the Serious
By Dean Baker Co-Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research, Author Washington policy debates are primarily about being admitted to the club of participants rather than about logic and evidence....
View ArticleThe Fiscal Myth
By Robert Kuttner Co-Founder and Co-Editor of The American Prospect As President Obama gets closer to making his deal with the Republicans on the budget, the most important thing to keep in mind is...
View ArticleGOP Coddles the Rich; Cuts the Rest
Last week, President Obama described the sequestration situation in simple, stark terms: keep it in place and punch the middle class in the gut. Or, he suggested, soften the blow substantially by...
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