Rich Buying Again, But Middle Class Still Hurting
American shoppers are splitting again: The affluent are finally starting to buy, picking up designer clothes at places like Nordstrom, while those on ...
American shoppers are splitting again: The affluent are finally starting to buy, picking up designer clothes at places like Nordstrom, while those on ...
James Mejia | Posted 11.12.2009 | Denver
Early childhood education is again on the minds of our elected officials. Last month, the House passed the Early Learning Challenge Fund, which gives states a chance at $8 billion in competitive grants.
Max Fraad Wolff | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics
I believe that hordes of voters went yesterday and voted for Republican candidates and discriminatory marriage platforms even though they voted for and like Obama. I also believe they are expressing an anger that liberal and conservative pundits alike do not understand.
McClatchy | Greg Gordon | Posted 11.02.2009 | Business
Goldman spent years buying hundreds of thousands of subprime mortgages, many of them from some of the more unsavory lenders in the business, and packa...
Blake Fleetwood | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics
No social program -- Medicare, social security, rent control, public universities -- that aims to help the poor can ever succeed without appealing to, and paying off, a broad middle class.
Elizabeth Donoghue | Posted 10.28.2009 | New York
New York is experiencing what the rest of the country is, too: unemployment and hard times. The Stuy Town decision on rent regulation will help people keep their homes in this uncertain era.
Lesley Stern | Posted 10.26.2009 | Comedy
Halloween traditionally marks the end of the harvest season when people begin storing necessities for the long, lean months ahead. Which is exactly the way you should be looking at it now.
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand | Posted 10.19.2009 | New York
Rather than do what is right, Republicans did what was politically convenient, twice blocking the unemployment extension last week in an effort to derail other economic recovery programs.
Robert Reich | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics
If Obama doesn't weigh in forcefully and say "no" to the hush money arranged in January for Big Pharma, big insurance, and the AMA, America's middle class will get walloped. And so will he in 2012.
The Huffington Post | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics
Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-Vermont) was on fire in his weekly YouTube video, "Senator Sanders Unfiltered." "The reality is that the middle class today ...
Francine Hardaway | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics
I personify the vanishing middle class. When I started my business in 1980, I had a pretty good life. Twenty-five years later, my standard of living has totally deteriorated.
DailyFinance | Charles Hugh Smith | Posted 10.12.2009 | Business
The current recession has stoked deep-seated fears about a declining middle class. A great collective anxiety about such a decline has been floating a...
The Huffington Post | Tam Vo | Posted 10.13.2009 | Impact
It's estimated that 7 million more homes are going into foreclosure, which is dramatically changing the the face of those who are without a place to l...
The Associated Press | By ERICA WERNER | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON (AP)-- The health insurance industry doesn't want Congress to let you off easy if you decide to ignore a proposed requirement that all Amer...
Les Leopold | Posted 10.01.2009 | Business
Collectively, the Forbes 400 have $1.57 trillion in wealth. It's hard to get your mind around a number like that. So let's imagine that it was available for the public good. What does $1.57 trillion buy?
Think Progress | Amanda Terkel | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics
Last night on Fox News, Bill O'Reilly actually told a Heritage Foundation scholar who was fear-mongering government-backed health care that he favors ...
Leo W. Gerard | Posted 09.16.2009 | Business
The teabaggers are apoplectic because this isn't just about health care. This is about the values of a government.
POLITICO | Carol E. Lee | Posted 09.15.2009 | Politics
PITTSBURGH -- President Barack Obama delivered his most strongly worded speech in defense of organized labor since taking office - tying health care r...
businessinsider.com | Bruce Judson | Posted 09.15.2009 | Business
For anyone with even a passing familiarity with issues associated with economic inequality, The Wall Street Journal front page story last week was sho...
The New York Times | PETER S. GOODMAN | Posted 11.12.2009 | Home
Across the United States a sense has taken hold that the Great Recession and the financial crisis are predominantly a result of national profligacy, a...
C. Nicole Mason | Posted 11.09.2009 | Home
When it comes to lending a helping hand to poor people, there seems to be a double standard. The government requires states to match funds for poverty relief, while banks get stimulus money without a fee.
Huff Radio | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics
New Afghan plans need a major commitment to get the job done -- but Obama is losing support from all sides on this one. And will health care reform be so watered down it's not really reform?
Simon Rosenberg | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics
A "new economy" is emerging in America, and it has not been kind to most Americans. This fall is the time for the president to make it clear that he has a strategy to ensure their success in this new economy.
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics
Let's hope that when Obama speaks Congress he outlines not only a bold program to provide health care for all Americans, but also a set of proposals to lift the middle class out of its currently dismal economic condition.
Chris Gunn | Posted 10.18.2009 | Business
We project that by counting big businesses in the United States and Europe as small businesses the Obama Administration may be shortchanging middle class firms out of as much as $100 billion a year in contracts.
AP | EMILY FREDRIX | Posted 11.13.2009 | Business