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The agenda of the Blue Green Alliance is brilliant and visionary. Build a “new, clean energy economy in America, and put [people] to work creating the American jobs of the future.” The blue green coalition includes environmentalists and organized labor, and its impressive conference in Washington, DC shows both the promise ahead and the blinkered […]
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J.P. Morgan Chase, America’s largest warehouse of arrogant financial elites, has issued yet another deceptive lobbyist smear in the guise of an “analyst report.” Yesterday, the megabank’s Chief Economist James Glassman launched a broadside against Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI) for having the audacity to publicly investigate allegations of financial fraud at Goldman Sachs. Glassman—a top […]
There’s a new study today that shows once again how insanely wrong conservatives are when they say that extending unemployment benefits in today’s economy only discourages people from finding work. \ Just ask the people who participated in the study of the long-term jobless by the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers […]
The BlueGreen Alliance is a coalition of union and environmental organizations “Green is gold,” said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as she stressed the importance of the coalition in building on the job-creation work started by the Recovery Act last year. “Know your power in all of this, because nothing this grand happens without your advocacy,” […]
An anonymous email’s been making the rounds on Wall Street from some loser who thinks he’s a shark. It’s a nasty piece of work that reveals the mentality of the people that have been running our economy for some time, thanks to deregulation and political influence peddling. We caught a glimpse of that mentality in […]
I am a founding member of The Other 98% and I am really proud of this growing organization. We are speedily closing in on 30,000 facebook fans since the beginning of April. I am really proud of the awesome video that we made to showcase our involvement in the Show Down on Wall Street The […]
The only things more astounding than conservatives’ record of failure, are their denials of "personal responsibility" for the ensuing disasters, and their attempts to blame somebody — anybody — else. Their response to the growing ecological disaster in the Gulf of Mexico is taken straight from Bart Simpson. "I didn’t do it, no one saw […]
Despite all of the attention heaped on the Treasury Department and the Troubled Asset Relief Program, the Federal Reserve served as the chief bank bailout engine in the U.S. economy during the . But unlike the Treasury, the Fed isn’t subject to basic government transparency requirements—we know almost nothing about the trillions of dollars the […]
Things are good for the plutocrats. Stock market soaring, bonuses are big… Thinks are going mighty fine. So fine, in fact, that the urgency of extending unemployment, COBRA and programs to help the people harmed by the financial disaster is moving off the table. But out here on Main Street we need jobs, jobs, jobs. […]