Hey, Mitt: Leave our teachers alone
It’s no surprise that conservatives think America needs fewer teachers. They’ve done everything they can to accomplish that end, and promise to do much more. What’s mystifying are their claims that fewer teachers would be good for American education.
The economy is not a board game
Unemployment, low wages, union-busting, foreclosures, refusing to prosecute elites for real crimes — all of these have real consequences for real people and for our country. This is not a board game. The elites should get their heads out of their board-game asses and look at what is happening out here in the real world that exists outside of DC and New York and the high-end malls.
We have to end the Bush tax cuts R...
I was on CNBC Tuesday when Bill Clinton gave an interview saying that, given the deadlock between Republicans and...
The snipers of Jersey Shore
Kevin June is the reluctant leader for the 37 families of the Riverdale Mobile Home Village in Jersey Shore, Pennsylvania, who were evicted from their homes, most of which they owned and paid a monthly lot fee. Some of the residents lived there for more than three decades. Most of the residents are elderly, disabled, or living slightly above the poverty line. Several are employed; all are struggling to survive in a bad economy.
The job stall
The White House must be telling itself there are still five months between now and Election Day, so the jobs picture...
Behind super-sized sodas, a deeper da...
Sugary soft drinks, as Michael Bloomberg reminds us, do our nation no good. But if we really want to narrow our waistbands, we’re going to have to narrow the income gaps that divide us.
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