Why We Need a New War on Poverty Why We Need a New War on Poverty
The deepening crisis today demands an effort as ambitious as the one launched fifty years ago this week.
Jan 8, 2014 / Sasha Abramsky
How Your Tax Dollars Are Funding Overseas Sweatshops How Your Tax Dollars Are Funding Overseas Sweatshops
While feigning outrage at worker abuse in Bangladesh, the US government has been quietly supporting the same sweatshop factories used by Walmart and The Gap.
Jan 7, 2014 / Robert J.S. Ross and Foreign Policy In Focus
Holiday in Austerity Land: 1.3 Million Americans Lose Jobless Benefits Holiday in Austerity Land: 1.3 Million Americans Lose Jobless Benefits
Paul Ryan had his way with the budget deal. And the economic pain is just beginning.
Dec 28, 2013 / John Nichols
FDR’s ‘Christmas Carol’ is the Antidote to Lump-of-Coal Austerity FDR’s ‘Christmas Carol’ is the Antidote to Lump-of-Coal Austerity
The thirty-second president used Dickens’s tale to make the case for programs to aid the dispossessed. We should do the same.
Dec 24, 2013 / John Nichols
Goldman Sachs Vet to Oversee Housing, Development Under de Blasio Goldman Sachs Vet to Oversee Housing, Development Under de Blasio
The mayor-elect also named an aide as his chief of staff.
Dec 23, 2013 / Jarrett Murphy
Don’t Get Too Excited About the Volcker Rule Don’t Get Too Excited About the Volcker Rule
Will the amendment be enough to change the behavior of bankers? Doubtful.
Dec 12, 2013 / William Greider
Keep the Pressure on Congress to Extend Emergency Unemployment Benefits Keep the Pressure on Congress to Extend Emergency Unemployment Benefits
There’s still time for Congress to decide not to ruin the holidays for 1.3 million unemployed Americans.
Dec 11, 2013 / NationAction
Elizabeth Warren Comes Out for Expanding Social Security Elizabeth Warren Comes Out for Expanding Social Security
Warren used rampant 2016 speculation to juice an important debate over expanded benefits.
Nov 18, 2013 / George Zornick
Momentum Forms Around Extending Long-Term Unemployment Insurance Momentum Forms Around Extending Long-Term Unemployment Insurance
Democrats are now unified in extended the crucial benefits--will Republicans go along?
Nov 15, 2013 / George Zornick
Awkward Truth From a Guilty Rich Guy Awkward Truth From a Guilty Rich Guy
Two cheers for Bill Gross, the co-founder and managing director of PIMCO, the California-based bond house that manages some $2 trillion in other people’s wealth.
Nov 4, 2013 / William Greider