The Big Business of Campaign Ads and Election Issues in Small-Town Michigan
The Rolling Thunder Down Home Democracy Tour is a series of one-day festivals aimed at bringing together people in a sort of citizenship fair. Many prominent political-minded folks joined their tour,...
View ArticleKatherine Newman on the Economic Downturn; Big Bucks for Political Ads
Headlines worldwide on the economic turndown seem to focus on the big players — banks, countries, corporations and markets — not individuals. Sociologist Katherine Newman delves into how Americans are...
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The Student Loan Crisis – From Cradle to Grave
Our eyes widened last week when we saw this headline on the website SmartMoney.com: “Student Loans on Rise – for Kindergarten.” Annamaria Andriotis wrote, “It used to be that families first signed up...
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Three Infuriating Facts About Wall Street CEOs Five Years After The Crisis
This post first appeared in ThinkProgress. Richard S. Fuld, Jr., former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Lehman Brothers, wipes his eye during testimony before the House Financial Services...
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Arena Offers Pride in ‘Most Miserable City’
The Stockton Arena in Stockton, California is home to the Stockton Thunder ECHL professional hockey team, owned by Canadian businessman Brad Rowbotham. The stadium, which opened in 2005, cost $69...
View ArticleElizabeth Warren and Paul Krugman on the Middle Class
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Nobel-prize winning economist Paul Krugman discussed the struggles facing America’s middle class at a sold-out event last Thursday at the Graduate Center of City...
View ArticleClips: Elizabeth Warren Takes on Hillary Clinton and Alan Greenspan
Before becoming senator of Massachusetts, Elizabeth Warren joined Bill Moyers and David Brancaccio on NOW a decade ago to discuss the problems facing middle-class Americans, and how “beholden”...
View ArticleWeb Extra: Elizabeth Warren on Why “I’ll Never Be an Insider”
READ THE TRANSCRIPTPRINT TRANSCRIPTBILL MOYERS: My favorite scene in the book, Larry Summers, former president of Harvard, your institution, top economic advisor at the time to President Obama, takes...
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Why Ordinary People Bear Economic Risks and Donald Trump Doesn’t
The Trump Taj Mahal casino in Atlantic City owned but Donald Trump filed bankruptcy last week. (Photo: momentcaptured1/flickr CC 2.0) This post first appeared at Robert Reich’s blog. Thirty years ago,...
View ArticleCall Congress To Oppose Backroom Wall Street Deal
This post first appeared at Campaign for America’s Future. We’re calling for an all-out push today to stop a backroom deal that would reopen the Wall Street derivatives casino that caused so much...
View ArticleJust How Cozy Is Hillary Clinton With Wall Street?
Editor’s Note: In the past week, a 2004 video from our NOW with Bill Moyers archive featuring an interview with then-Professor Elizabeth Warren talking about then-Sen. Hillary Clinton found new life on...
View ArticleKatherine Newman on the Economic Downturn; Big Bucks for Political Ads
The sociologist discusses how individual Americans are affected by the global economy crisis. Plus, a critical look at spending on political TV ads. Continue reading The post Katherine Newman on the...
View ArticleThe Student Loan Crisis – From Cradle to Grave
Our eyes widened last week when we saw this headline on the website SmartMoney.com: “Student Loans on Rise – for Kindergarten.” Annamaria Andriotis wrote, “It used to be that families first signed up...
View ArticleThree Infuriating Facts About Wall Street CEOs Five Years After The Crisis
Five years after the financial collapse led to the Great Recession, a new report finds CEOs who contributed to the crisis are doing just fine (think lots of mansions). Continue reading The post Three...
View ArticleArena Offers Pride in ‘Most Miserable City’
Stockton, Calif., is bankrupt and, until Detroit declared itself so, was the largest U.S. city to have fallen on such tragic financial hardship. The 2005 construction of the Stockton Arena, as well as...
View ArticleElizabeth Warren and Paul Krugman on the Middle Class
Video from the sold-out event last week at CUNY in New York, featuring the Massachusetts senator and the Nobel-prize winning economist, is now online. Continue reading The post Elizabeth Warren and...
View ArticleClips: Elizabeth Warren Takes on Hillary Clinton and Alan Greenspan
Ten years ago Warren spoke about how policymakers in Washington don't always have the best interest of Americans in mind. Continue reading The post Clips: Elizabeth Warren Takes on Hillary Clinton and...
View ArticleWeb Extra: Elizabeth Warren on Why “I’ll Never Be an Insider”
After the broadcast interview ended, the Senator talked about the warning Larry Summers gave her while she was "causing trouble" in Washington. Continue reading The post Web Extra: Elizabeth Warren on...
View ArticleWhy Ordinary People Bear Economic Risks and Donald Trump Doesn’t
Bankruptcy was designed so people could start over. But these days, the only ones starting over are big corporations, wealthy moguls and Wall Street. Continue reading The post Why Ordinary People Bear...
View ArticleCall Congress To Oppose Backroom Wall Street Deal
Campaign for America's Future is calling for an "all-out push today to stop a backroom deal that would reopen the Wall Street derivatives casino that caused so much damage in 2008." Continue reading...
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