Recession? What Recession?
The rich are getting richer and the poor, poorer, with many who used to be middle class sliding into the second camp.
We Have to Trim the Bloated Pentagon Budget and Use the Cash for a ‘Green Dividend’ to Create Good Jobs
How can we come out of this recession with a manufacturing sector and a workforce that are globally competitive, that produce things that people need in the new green economy?
Austerity Won’t Restore our Prosperity
We are trying to prop up an economy that is a giant Ponzi scheme.
Jobs Emergency
The best way to address budget deficits is to put people back to work so they can pay their share of taxes.
Climate Currency
When it comes to climate change, altruism and self-interest go hand in hand.
Icarus Inc.
Taxpayer-funded bailouts having been secured, the sky was the limit again for CEO compensation.
American Gothic, 2010
Foreclosing farms.
Banks Put on Notice
A Senate amendment bars rewards for enabling bad loans.
Down and Out…in America
We have a long-term growth in income disparity between rich and middle-class, which has since been mostly obscured by the recent meltdown.
Record Bank Profits and the American Dream Foreclosed
Washington is refusing to make the banks eat the debt bubble they created.
Change Can Be Tougher Than Hope
The Obama administration can learn from its first year’s setbacks to guide the country in the right direction in 2010.
What If We Were Judged by Our Jails?
The American prison population quadrupled in just the last 25 years.
Jobs Crisis Needs Drastic Action
Nine months into the stimulus, with double-digit unemployment, we need a full-scale emergency relief plan.
Battered by the Storm: How the Safety Net Is Failing Americans and How to Fix It
The economic crisis is still on the rise for millions of Americans, while at the same time the social safety net is failing to support many of them.