Today’s GOP has bet the proverbial farm on Grover Norquist’s ‘No New Taxes’ mantra above and beyond everything else going on with our nation today.

Aside from supporting state’s with new and continued GOP majorities on attacking women’s healthcare, and any attempt to grant LGBT’s equal human rights (All causes that only [...]

(Cross-posted from The New York Communities for Change blog)

Maribel Toure was hit by a taxi on her way to work as an X-Ray Technician in 2009. Because of her injuries, she was unable to work for four months.

Just a few weeks before Maribel’s accident, her husband was laid off from his [...]

I’ll be speaking with Norman Solomon — who’s running for Congress — and Lisa Maldonado of the AFL-CIO. Details here — hope to see you!

Here is the video of last night’s launch of Rebuild the Dream campaign, with Van Jones. (If you want to skip the music parts, start at 9:15.)

Watch Van Jones spell out “the three big lies” of the conservative narrative:

1) America is broke.
2) Asking the super rich to pay taxes [...]

With so many Americans facing a summer characterized by “staycations” (if they’re lucky to even have homes in which to stay), job-hunting, and general belt-tightening, it’s understandable that they’d be more receptive to something–anything–that promised to keep gas prices from soaring again, even if it meant turning their heads for a while so as to [...]

It is 10 years since the Bush tax cuts passed. When Bush took office (and never forget the Supreme Court’s 5-4 role in that) The Onion famously declared, “Our long national nightmare of peace and prosperity is finally over.” They had no way to know how prescient they were. Now we [...]

From Shana Mosher at Human Services Council:

On May 12, 25,000 people united to march on Wall Street, rally against budget cuts that will severely impact our communities and social safety net, and demand that banks and Wall Street corporations pay their fair share.

The energy and momentum before and on the day [...]

Trends in income inequality relative to GDP

There are no clever mathematical models here, only facts. No Nobel prize for me.

I analysed income per family divided by GDP per family. First look at the 90% majority:

Since about 1970, their average share of income relative to GDP has steadily declined, from almost half, to [...]

The On May 12 Coalition is holding actions in New York City tomorrow to hold big banks and corporations accountable for crashing our economy and asking them to pay their fair share to help get the country back on track. Mayor Bloomberg is asking for terrible budget cuts, while the big Wall Street [...]

This week, Mayor Michael Bloomberg will propose a new budget for New York City.  It will resemble many of the state budgets that we have seen proposed throughout the country, as well as the federal budget proposal drafted by Rep. Paul Ryan.  They all share the same theme – the only way to fix our [...]