Due to several factors – Mexican born citizens are not immigrating here in the numbers they once were.  Ever since the Bush economic crisis – jobs have been hard to find for those on the lower rung of the socioeconomic ladder with no real legal status and a lack of comprehension of the English language [...]

Here is a list of everything you need to know about campaign finance from the last 4 days compiled into one thread: Eight of the top 10 SuperPAC donors are Republicans – courtesy Think Progress: Ad spending by interest groups – courtesy of Andrew Sullivan: Conservative Groups Spending Heavily in Bid to Win a Senate [...]

In an interview with WSJ’s Jon Hilsenrath, MIT professor Simon Johnson calls for higher income-tax rates as part of a “fiscally conservative” plan to shore up the U.S. budget in the long run. “We have lost track of the fact that deficits do in fact matter…,” he says. Raising rates on the rich will not [...]

You’ll often hear how the media is in the tank for President Obama but as Pew Research – the gold standard in polling – finds…President Obama is consistently receiving more negative media coverage than he is positive media coverage.  Now juxtapose that with Mitt Romney’s recent claims that there is a “vast left wing conspiracy” [...]

Source: WSJ More and more companies are hiring non-U.S. workers as a larger % of their workforce than ever before.  This is due to a number of factors including growth outside of the U.S. in emerging markets, the great income stagnation of the Bush presidency, erosions in U.S. labor laws but also…these multinational companies are [...]

Source: Daily Kos Look at the chart above – 5 huge corporations are firing employees and making billions and billions in profits and handsomely rewarding the C-suite (CEO, CFO etc) on the backs of the working class.  When you’re running a successful business – it is not the responsibility nor the focus of the business to [...]

If you believe climate change isn’t man made….you’re watching too much Fox News.  Watching the climate change debate reminds me of the debate over whether or not cigarettes caused cancer.  Scientists said it had harmful health effects…tobacco companies obfuscated, paid various members of academia to propose opposition research to muddy the waters.  Backed by this [...]

According to the AFL-CIO: “The average CEO pay of companies in the S&P 500 Index rose to $12.94 million in 2011.[1] Overall, the average level of CEO pay in the S&P 500 Index increased 13.9 percent in 2011, following a 22.8 percent increase in CEO pay in 2010.” Matthew Yglesias adds his take HERE: This makes me [...]

“If Americans want to live the American dream, they should go to Denmark.” ~Richard Wilkinson Richard Wilkinson explains this chart in the video: And that’s what I’m going to show you. I’m not using any hypothetical data. I’m taking data from the U.N. – it’s the same as the World Bank has – on the scale of income differences in [...]

Source: Citizens for Tax Justice You may hear from time to time that over 50% of American’s don’t pay taxes.  It’s interesting to me to watch the debate proceed as Republicans say that NOONE should pay more in taxes (when they’re defending tax breaks for billionaires) because that would be bad for economic prosperity and [...]