Almost All of the Recovery Has Gone to the 1%
New economic evidence shows that the recovery has been almost entirely going to the top 1 percent. Immediately after the Great Recession in 2007, there were signs that the richest Americans were doing...
View ArticleLarry Summers thinks you're dumb and he's right
Larry Summers, who served as the Director of the Council of Economic Advisors until 2010, argues in today's Financial Times that candidates should avoid making election year promises about tax policy...
View ArticleGas Prices Will Not Cost Obama Reelection
It's that time of year again. The flowers are in bloom, the weather is starting to improve (well, everywhere but Oregon), and politicians can only talk about gas. Spring, as it does every year, drives...
View ArticleThe Weekly Standard Hates Portland
Shot at 2012-03-13 Everything the New York Times likes, the Weekly Standard must hate. In a long, invective filled article, Mark Hemingway, whose writing bears little resemblance to Ernest's, declares...
View ArticlePaul Ryan Exposes the Intellectual Bankruptcy of Republican Ideology, Again
I may think that Paul Ryan's proposed budget is absurd, but at least he's presenting his plan to the public. Chris Cilliza and Aaron Blake's piece in the Washington Post posits that Republican...
View ArticleIs a Romney Presidency the Best Solvent for Gridlock?
Originally posted on PoliticsOlogy `Is Romney our only chance? This is the most important poll you'll read about American politics this year: according to the annual Pew Research Poll on voter...
View ArticleIs Mitt Romney a closet Keynesian?
Originally posted on PoliticsOlogyIf conventional punditry is to be believed, the next President of the United States will be selected on one issue: jobs. In the inaugural post of an ongoing feature...
View ArticleWhy Bush Still Matters
Originally posted to PoliticsOlogyEven without the 2007 economic collapse, Bush was squandering our surplus. All the Republicans screaming about the national debt need to remember that.
View ArticleObama Aims High with Jobs Plan
Originally posted on PoliticOlogy Today, Obama will go and reiterate his campaign message. More fiscal stimulus, particularly in the form of the American Jobs Act. The Obama administration has been put...
View ArticleObama: I Want to Hire More Teachers
Originally posted on PoliticsOlogy Look, dude, we all want to flee to the Cleve. Obama delivered another economic address in Cleveland, Ohio on Thursday to deflect criticism over his poorly-worded...
View ArticleDoes Washington State's experience with healthcare reform have national...
Originally posted on PoliticsOlogyAnd you thought we were going to just stop talking about the public option...
View ArticleHow ALEC Uses Budget Crises To Hijack Small Towns
Originally posted on PoliticsOlogy That's called juxtaposition.To understand how the conservative movement has been so successful in shaping government policy over the past couple of years, it helps to...
View ArticleWant More Stimulus? Expand the Food Stamp Program
If there was one thing that panelists agreed upon during the€™ recent conference on poverty in DC, it wa€™s that food stamps, officially known as SNAP, has been a resounding success in preventing...
View ArticleBanks Move to Influence Competitive Senate Races
Originally posted on PolicyShop, the blog for the progressive thinktank Demos. Should Dodd-Frank be overturned, the financial industry stands to make (with government backing, of course) a ton of...
View ArticleCalifornia's Succeeding Despite Antitax Hurdles
This article originally appeared on the blog of Demos, a progressive policy and research group. Ronald Reagan's hologram may not have shown up to the Republican convention to extoll the virtues of...
View ArticleCrucial Swing States Unprepared for Voter Intimidation
Even beyond voter ID, the rightwing plans on exercising extralegal, but not necessarily illegal, measures to suppress the vote in 2012. A new report released jointly by Demos and Common Cause surveys...
View ArticleCorporate Profits Reach Historic High (Again)
With fast food and Walmart workers striking for living wages and decent benefits, the corporations they enrich have never fared better. Catherine Rampbell analyzes the 3rd quarter GDP report for 2012....
View ArticleRetire Fix the Debt
Picture from the excellent New York Magazine profile yesterday.The Campaign to Fix the Debt is the newest power-player in D.C. Founded by the beloved Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson (who are taking...
View ArticleThe facts behind skyrocketing tuition
Here's a plain fact: record disinvestment in higher education at the state level leads to record tuition hikes. In 2012, the trend escalated with the biggest single year jump on record. That’s clear...
View ArticleHow McCutcheon Will Make Raising the Minimum Wage Even Harder
Big money in politics hurts the middle class.
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