How the 1 Percent Get So Rich? (VIDEO) How the 1 Percent Get So Rich? (VIDEO)
Even in an Occupy world, most Americans don’t know exactly how the 1 percent does what it does. The money media haven’t explained it, and the 1 percent likes things t...
Feb 17, 2012 / Blog / Laura Flanders
This Week in Poverty: Obama’s Budget, Your Server’s Budget This Week in Poverty: Obama’s Budget, Your Server’s Budget
If Obama wants his actions to match his rhetoric about helping the poor, he needs to show a lot more leadership.
Feb 17, 2012 / Blog / Greg Kaufmann
Occupying the SEC for a Stronger Volcker Rule Occupying the SEC for a Stronger Volcker Rule
In a public comment to the SEC, an Occupy working group details troubling loopholes in the Volcker Rule, part of the Dodd-Frank financial reform bill.
Feb 16, 2012 / Rachel Signer
Apple’s China Comes Home to Haunt Us Apple’s China Comes Home to Haunt Us
It seems China’s labor practices are now to be admired rather than scorned, lest the American economy decline further in the new world order.
Feb 16, 2012 / Robert Scheer
Obama in Wisconsin: The Soft Economics of Low Expectations Obama in Wisconsin: The Soft Economics of Low Expectations
The president returned to the battleground state of Wisconsin and gave a well-received speech. But he avoided hot-button labor issues and the trade and industrial policies tha...
Feb 16, 2012 / Blog / John Nichols
Still No End to ‘Too Big to Fail’ Still No End to ‘Too Big to Fail’
A year and a half after Congress passed the Dodd-Frank Act, the Federal Reserve still refuses to block the Capitol One mergers.
Feb 15, 2012 / Blog / William Greider
Slide Show: Wisconsin’s Uprising, One Year Later Slide Show: Wisconsin’s Uprising, One Year Later
When Governor Walker announced his proposal to strip public employees of most collective bargaining rights on February 11, 2011—little over a month after taking office—…
Feb 14, 2012 / Photo Essay / The Nation
Will the Payroll Tax Compromise Freeze Out the Unemployed? Will the Payroll Tax Compromise Freeze Out the Unemployed?
A bipartisan deal on extending the payroll tax cut might sidestep badly needed help for the jobless.
Feb 14, 2012 / Blog / George Zornick
Tip Your Servers This Valentine’s Day Tip Your Servers This Valentine’s Day
In the restaurant industry, the wage gap between men and women is a matter of policy. Millions of the restaurant workers who serve our food cannot afford to eat.
Feb 14, 2012 / Blog / Laura Flanders
Twenty-Five Faces of an American Uprising Twenty-Five Faces of an American Uprising
Wisconsin groups and activists have for a full year maintained an epic mass mobilzation on behalf of labor rights.
Feb 14, 2012 / Blog / John Nichols