Americans Agree: There Is No Recovery Financial Armageddon ...No matter how you break it down -- whether by party/ideology, household income, age, or any other category -- the majority of Americans agree on one thing: there is no recovery...
Obama makes case for 'Buffett Rule,' higher taxes on wealthy The Hill ...President Obama intensified his populist pitch Tuesday, aggressively making the case that the wealthiest Americans should pay more in taxes and taking Republicans to task for opposing the “Buffett Rule.”...
Politics: Why GOP Mega-Donor Sheldon Adelson Is Mad, Bad and a Danger to the Republic Rolling Stone ...Adelson's anti-union mania (I would argue) is the most important thing to know about him...
U.S. Abandons Final Pretense of Transparency or Inclusion of Consumer, Health, Environmental, Labor Perspective in Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Talks Public Citizen ...U.S. trade officials have quietly cut stakeholder presentations from the next set of Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement negotiations, eliminating the last pretense that the process of the talks is transparent and inclusive and sending a message that only the views of the 600 official corporate trade advisors provided special access to the talks will be reflected in the final deal...
Democratic primary in recall race heats up Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ...Senate Republican Leader Scott Fitzgerald of Juneau said some Republicans may vote for Falk in the Democratic primary because polling shows she does not perform as well as Barrett in head-to-head matchups with GOP Gov. Scott Walker...
Usury Takes a Bite Out of the Poor Credit Slips ...predatory lending violates the Truth of God’s creation and human dignity in Torah and Gospels, violates basic truth of an honest business, and is in no way a “service” that helps people or produces any kind of good. Rather it “bites” the life out of the poor and working classes, violates basic principles of justice, and as such, hurts individuals and the entire community...
