If reforming Medicare means a single-payer health care plan -- which would save the system hundreds of billions of dollars and provide more efficient care -- I'm all for it.
Jonathan Tasini | Posted 01.07.2009 | Politics
When a political leader says the country will have to make some "very difficult choices", as Obama did, history instructs us that it is average people that get nailed. And it doesn't have to be that way.
Jonathan Tasini | Posted 12.17.2008 | Politics
It's regular people who had nothing to do with this financial disaster who continue to take the hit. In New York, Paterson's new budget takes aim at workers and lets the rich of the hook.
Robert Weissman | Posted 12.12.2008 | Business
Nancy Pelosi says the Congressional Republicans are playing Russian Roulette with the economy by refusing to agree to an auto industry bailout. But f...
Steve Parker | Posted 12.06.2008 | Business
We've had enough threats from our sworn enemies -- we don't need them from Detroit executives. These CEOs and their boards of directors must go, whether by car or jet or skateboard, they must go.
Anya Kamenetz | Posted 12.04.2008 | Living
If one year at a public university costs more than half of the income of the poorest fifth of the population, that's no meritocracy.
Jonathan Tasini | Posted 11.24.2008 | Politics
Since Edwards left the race, how many times have we heard the word "poverty" uttered, much less had a national debate about poverty?
Jonathan Tasini | Posted 11.20.2008 | Business
This is a story that seems all too familiar: trillions of dollars in retirement and savings are gone, millions of jobs will be lost, and we're facing a severe economic crisis.
Jonathan Tasini | Posted 11.14.2008 | Business
The current president's pronouncements that the "free market" isn't at fault for the financial meltdown led me to dig deep, investigate and discover the real culprit: Bozo The Clown.
Jonathan Tasini | Posted 11.11.2008 | Politics
While our country is disintegrating, the rich are hiding. They are hiding behind a decades-long ideology that paralyzes the political system from being serious about what the rich should pay.
Zondra Hughes | Posted 11.05.2008 | Chicago
These people went into little booths, pulled back the curtain, and continuously jabbed, and stabbed... And when the dust settled, classism was dead.
Thomas Frank | Posted 11.05.2008 | Politics
Acknowledging class was always difficult for "New Democrats" -- it was second-wave, it was divisive -- but 2008 made retro politics cool again.
Karen Kisslinger | Posted 10.28.2008 | Politics
We're supposed to be class free and infinitely upwardly mobile, but downward mobility is the order of the day and only radical change in the form of a "Renew Deal" can turn it around.
Jane Devin | Posted 10.20.2008 | Home
In the political dialogue of soccer moms, bubbas, the liberal elite, family values, Joe Six-Packs, and the omnipresent nuclear family, the poor have all but become invisible. It's not trendy to talk about the poor in an age dominated by bootstrap philosophies, plastic surgery, jogging suits, and positive thinking mantras.
Tony Sachs | Posted 10.19.2008 | Politics
Alex wants to buy a small country and turn the population into his personal servants. But he looked at your tax plan and he saw that he was going to pay much higher taxes.
Mike Garibaldi-Frick | Posted 10.19.2008 | Business
Warren Buffet says, "There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning."
Howie Klein | Posted 10.18.2008 | Politics
In his weekly radio address this morning John McCain warned that Barack Obama wants to-- Heaven forbid-- spread the wealth around. He would tax-- at a...
Leo W. Gerard | Posted 10.17.2008 | Politics
The "small government" Bush and Republican Congress increased spending, thus replacing the budget surplus bequeathed them with deficits.
Betsy Perry | Posted 10.15.2008 | Business
It isn't "chic" to pretend to cut back; for most of us, it's crucial. But you don't put on your down-on-my-luck face or it shows, and no one wants to hang around a loser.
Mike Garibaldi-Frick | Posted 10.15.2008 | Business
Middle class Americans need to ask themselves and their government: are these giveaways and bailouts the only way to stimulate and save the economy?
Jonathan Tasini | Posted 08.04.2008 | Business
Just when you thought the greed and outrageous behavior of corporate America could get no worse, the leaders of companies have sunk to a new low: they...
Jonathan Tasini | Posted 07.29.2008 | Business
The money just never got to the government -- it's sitting in corporate coffers, gathering interest and/or being used for purposes that it was never intended for.
Jonathan Tasini | Posted 07.24.2008 | Politics
Now totaling the grand sum of $6.55 an hour, the minimum wage is a disgrace and a sad commentary about the state of our social safety net, the economy and our political system.
Jonathan Tasini | Posted 07.09.2008 | Politics
Penn has hated everything about the movement for change long before he helped pilot the Clinton presidential campaign to disaster. Now he's teaming up with Karen Hughes in a "bi-partisan" effort.
Jonathan Tasini | Posted 06.30.2008 | Politics
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Jonathan Tasini | Posted 01.08.2009 | Home