The economic crisis that began four years ago eroded the quality of life for almost everyone in this country. Yet whether talking about jobs, homes or healthcare, the most devastating… Read more »
economy
For-profit colleges betray student hopes
In a competitive and depressed economy where more and more people are struggling to get an education to stay “marketable,” the goal of education is increasingly less about obtaining knowledge… Read more »
England: “Lost Generation” demands a future
Mass media is portraying the rioting committed by thousands of people from London to Liverpool, Birmingham, Leeds and Manchester as a “crime” committed by “animals.” Now that the show appears… Read more »
How banks run the world
With economists warning that the next big recession is on the horizon, it’s a good time to revisit a 2011 article that helps to explain why.
Obama’s raw deal for workers. To fund genuine job creation, tax profits and end the wars
The American Jobs Act contains just enough window dressing about “creating jobs” to mask its real goal: making workers think it’s about creating jobs. The $447 billion Obama proposal is… Read more »
FS editorial – Europe’s money woes: austerity or revolution?
Economic convulsions in the European Union are not about spoiled workers having it too good with all their costly social welfare programs. Rather, they are about Europe’s desperate ruling class… Read more »
Book Review: Wall Street scam artists and the Washington connection
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Suskind’s bestselling book, Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President (Harper Collins Publishers), belongs to a peculiar genre of literature. Based on… Read more »
How the rich get richer (and everybody else gets poorer)
Washington is home to some of the most profitable corporations in the world, including Boeing, Microsoft, Starbucks, Amazon, T-Mobile, and Costco. Four of the richest 23 people in the country… Read more »
Why is Congress killing the postal service?
Legislators and the rightwing political machine are out to get the U.S. Postal Service (USPS). Why? Not because the Internet has replaced snail mail. It hasn’t. A lot of people… Read more »
Jerry Brown shreds California safety net
Gov. Brown’s 2012 budget includes cutting welfare services again, eliminating Healthy Families which serves 900,000 children, and more reductions of Medi-Cal, childcare and home health aid. “This is the best… Read more »
