Did you know you will pay more taxes this year than GE or Exxon Mobil? These corporations, and others, will not only avoid paying
Category: Financial reform
Russ Feingold has a new PAC: Progressives United
Russ Feingold has started a new PAC called “Progressives United” for the purpose of combating the recent Citizens United Supreme Court decision—a decision that has unleashed
Payday loans: preying on the poor
Every November, a host of new fliers appear on doors in my low-income neighborhood. They are not typical advertisements. With all the Black Friday
“Right to Rent” bill is a winner
In April, progressive congresspersons Rep. Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ) and Marcy Kaptur (D-OH) introduced the Right-To-Rent Act of 2010, H.R. 5028. Millions of families are
Joseph Stiglitz’s creative ideas for fixing the economy
Nobel Prize winning economist and Columbia University professor Joseph Stiglitz has some good ideas about what we should do to get out of the
Goldman Sachs, Congress and the man in the mirror
The tension mounted as the senator tried to get the investment banker on the hot seat to acknowledge that the best interests of his
Sen. Ted Kaufman demands real financial reform
Finally, a Democratic senator stood up and outlined the necessary financial reform that the Obama administration has yet to initiate. For over a year,