Institute for Policy Studies

Get It Done! Youth to UN on Internationally Binding Climate Treaty

Tina Gerhardt | Posted 02.11.2012

Read More: Climate Negotiations, Unep, Pablo Solon, Durban, Iea, Institute for Policy Studies, Greenpeace, Kumi Naidoo, China, Todd Stern, Climate Change, Michael Dorsey, Kyoto Protocol, Friends of the Earth, Ldcs, Unfccc, India, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, US, Nnimmo Bassey, Aosis, Global Warming, Green News
Tina Gerhardt

As the sun had risen in Durban, the Durban Platform was passed at the COP 17. Yet in a replay of Copenhagen two years ago, backroom texts emerged at the 11th hour and the process was thrown into disarray.

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10 Job Slashers That Benefited From A Tax Holiday

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 12.08.2011

Read More: John McCain, Congress, Bailout, Job Cuts, Bank of America, Tax Holiday, Citgroup, Harry Reid, Institute for Policy Studies, Repatriation Tax Holiday, Tax Breaks, Kay Hagan, Businessweek, Business News

More money doesn't always mean more jobs. Take when the U.S. government last imposed a tax holiday on offshore profits in 2004. Those companies that b...

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Time to Tax Campaign Donations and Lobbying

Duncan Quirk | Posted 11.07.2011

Read More: Elections 2012, Institute for Policy Studies, Lobbying, 2012 Election, Lobbyists, Tax Lobby, Taxing Lobby, Taxes and Lobby, Taxing Lobbyists, Lobbying and Taxes, Politics News
Duncan Quirk

When political influence and decisions are paid for with bullets and torture, it is condemned as dictatorship, yet we turn a blind eye to the tyranny of purchasing our government with the dollar.

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No Balanced Budget Without Independence From Wall Street

Keith Harrington | Posted 09.23.2011

Read More: Balanced Budget, Debt Ceiling, David Korten, Financial Reform, Economic Crisis, Institute for Policy Studies, Steady State Economics, Ponzi Scheme, Ecological Economics, Federal Reserve, Banking Industry, Phantom Wealth, National Debt, Gdp, Wall Street, Grassroots Advocacy, Debt Spending, Economic Growth, Business News
Keith Harrington

"We need to balance the budget in order to grow the economy." In the midst of the federal budget debt ceiling food fight, this may be one of the only ideas both political parties can more or less agree on.

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OMG! Glenn Beck Is Onto Something!

Karen Dolan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: George Soros, Capitol Hill, Van Jones, Americans for Prosperity, Grassroots, Institute for Policy Studies, Glenn Beck, Tea Party, Progressive Agenda, Progressives, Right Wing, Politics News
Karen Dolan

Glenn, that sure is scary stuff about those well-funded "freedom" groups getting their emissaries elected with secret money and requiring loyalty and litmus tests. Thanks, man, for the warning.

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Let's Be Honest: About Jobs and the Economy

Larry Gellman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Taxes, General Electric, Right Wing Media, CEO Pay, Stock Market, Economy, George W. Bush, Economic Crisis, Institute for Policy Studies, Jobs, Right Wing, Consumer Spending, Recession, Barack Obama, Bush Tax Cuts, Goldman Sachs, Investing, Deficit, Job Cuts, Corporations, Ceos, Fox News, Warren Buffett, Corporate Greed, Job Creation, Politics News
Larry Gellman

There's not a thing that Obama or any other politician can do to lower unemployment in the private sector as long as CEOs and shareholders of our largest companies are getting richer and richer.

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Mr. CEO, Can You Spare a Job or a Free Lunch

John Perkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: American Express, Institute for Policy Studies, Mark Hurd, Wal-Mart, Business News
John Perkins

In case you are tempted to feel sorry during these troubled times for the corporatocracy... this just in: The CEOs who fired the most workers during the current economic recession also rewarded themselves with the highest pay.

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Exec Pay

Huffington Post | Nathaniel Cahners Hindman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Verizon, Third World America, Institute for Policy Studies, Jobs, Hewlett-Packard, Wal-Mart, Layoffs, Mark Hurd, Ceos, Executive Compensation, Slidepollajax, Business News

A grim fact of the recession is that it pays to lay people off. The CEOs who laid off the most employees during the recession are also the CEOs wh...

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My white mom's Black history moment

Dedrick Muhammad | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: We Shall Overcome, Martin Luther King, Blacks, Montgomery Alabama, Institute for Policy Studies, Dedrick Muhammad, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, Civil Rights, African Americans, Black History Month, Healthy Living News
Dedrick Muhammad

As we come to the end of this Black history month, I have decided to share some of the lessons taught to me by my first teacher on Black history and t...

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Weekly Audit: More Jobs Please

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Home Affordability Modification Program, Foreclosures, Obama Jobs Bill, The American Prospect, President Obama, Republican Obstructionism, Financial Transactions Tax, Christopher Hayes, Institute for Policy Studies, Obama, Budget Deficit, The Nation, Linktv, Alternet, Steve Benen, Foreclosure Crisis, Mother Jones, Hamp, Andy Kroll, Recovery Act, Stimulus Package, Dean Baker, Afro-Netizen, The Washington Monthly, Economic Stimulus Package, Jobs Bill, Financial Speculation, Obstructionist Republicans, Sarah Anderson, Economic Policy Institute, Mortgage Crisis, Chris Rabb, Colorlines, Housing Crash, Michelle Chen, Center for Economic Policy and Research, Working in These Times, Economic Stimulus, Josh Bivens, Economy, Home News
The Media Consortium

>By Zach Carter, Media Consortium Blogger One year after President Barack Obama secured passage of his critical economic stimulus package, the U.S. Se...

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Don't Call It a "Defense" Budget

Norman Solomon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Miriam Pemberton, National Priorities Project, Poverty, Pentagon, Military Spending, Martin Luther King Jr., New York Times, Institute for Policy Studies, Social Programs, Afghanistan, Defense Budget, Barack Obama, Jo Comerford, Politics News
Norman Solomon

The new budget from the White House will push U.S. military spending well above $2 billion a day. Foreclosing the future of our country should not be confused with defending it.

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Promises Unkept: Obama Administration and a Unified Security Budget

Tamar Abrams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pentagon, Homeland Security, National Security, Foreign Policy in Focus, Institute for Policy Studies, Obama Administration, Nobel Peace Prize, Barack Obama, Unified Security Budget, Politics News
Tamar Abrams

While the president has made some strides toward curbing waste, fraud and abuse in Pentagon contracting, he has yet to change the crucial balance between military and non-military security spending.

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F-22 Vote Worries Arms Investors

William Hartung | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Institute for Policy Studies, Unified Security Budget, US Military, F-22s, Foreign Policy in Focus, US Military Spending F22s, US Military Spending, Politics News
William Hartung

Even with the president and the secretary of defense on the right side, it took what President Eisenhower called "an alert and knowledgeable citizenry" to put the anti-F-22 effort over the top.

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Invest in Ending Homelessness

Maria Foscarinis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mainstreet, President Obama, Homelessness, Homeless, Institute for Policy Studies, Helping the Homeless, Los Angeles, Wall Street, Affordable Housing, Mandate for Change, Politics News
Maria Foscarinis

Investing in ending homelessness by building the safety net would create jobs, strengthen communities and save money--shoring up the interests of Wall Street.

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A Hundred Eyes for an Eye

Norman Solomon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gandhi, Israelis, Human Rights, Gaza, Arabs, Phyllis Bennis, Israel, Institute for Policy Studies, Geneva Conventions, Palestinians, I. F. Stone, World News
Norman Solomon

Routinely, the politicians and pundits of Washington can't summon minimal decency in themselves or each other on the subject of Israel and Palestinians.

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Requiem for the Bailout Storyline

Norman Solomon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: James K. Galbraith, Robert Reich, Wall Street Crisis, McClatchy Newspapers, Economy, David Brooks, New York Times, Institute for Policy Studies, $700 Billion Bailout, Congress, News Media, Economic Stimulus, Center for Economic and Policy Research, President Bush, Dow, Dean Baker, Media News
Norman Solomon

Recent events should not be allowed to obscure the reality that the news media played a pivotal role in stampeding the country into a bailout that was unwise and unjust.

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The Pentagon's Fifteen Billion Dollar Pirate Plunder

Paige Donner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pentagon Audit, Contractors, Congressional Oversight Committee, Free Government Information, Pigs at the Trough, Unaccounted for Expenditures, Rep. Henry Waxman, Halliburton, Senator Obama, U.S. Taxpayer Dollars, Institute for Policy Studies, Iraq, U.S. Army Soldiers, Clean Contracting Amendment, Federal Regulations, Fraud, Kbr, War on Iraq, Army, Fifteen Billion Dollars, CBS News, Mary Ugone, New York Times, Washington Post, Internal Controls Over Payments Made in Iraq Kuwait and Egypt, Misappropriation, American Idol, Seized Iraqi Oil Money, Indiana Jones Sequel, Kellogg Brown Root, Cash, Politics News
Paige Donner

(No, this is NOT an Indiana Jones Sequel) Yes, you read that correctly. American taxpayers have paid out $15 Billion U.S. dollars in unaccounted for...

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