A popular perspective on the current work stoppage in the National Football League is “Who cares about billionaires fighting millionaires?” It’s a fair question
Category: Economy
Where are the manufacturing jobs in America? Try our prisons
There are currently 14.9 million unemployed Americans. Now imagine if there were a cache of jobs out there, unskilled jobs that anyone needing work
Good news on jobs means good wages
Robert Reich has been a contrarian about most of the Obama economic policies, but that does not necessarily make him a negative person.
When you think Egypt, think Suez
Many want to believe that recent uprisings that began in Tunisia are essentially about human rights. As discord cascaded into Egypt and then to
Same old song: American racism, American plutocracy
1. At a town hall meeting on Tuesday, February 22, a supporter of Georgia Republican Paul Broun asked the U.S. representative, “Who’s going to
De-funding imagination: a bad economic move
The biggest losers in the Congressional race to be the biggest spending-cutter could be imagination, creativity and ingenuity—elements that are essential to economic recovery
The Civil War, the NFL, the haves and the have-nots
A recent article in the Washington Post pointed out a “myth” about the Civil War that relates to why middle and low income people
Why are civilian Federal workers getting the shaft?
The two most effective ways to control federal spending: 1) Rescind the “Bush tax holiday” for the wealthy; restore tax rates for the wealthy
Rearranging the deck chairs in downtown St. Louis
Ballpark Village, we’re told, is on the rise…again. Well, maybe. But the latest incarnation calls for financial-services powerhouse Stifel-Nicolaus to be the primary tenant
Cry out! French writer, 93, publishes a 13-page best seller
Stephane Hessel‘s slim, 13-page political pamphlet, according to a recent article in the Independent, is “smashing all publishing records in France.” In just three months,