From Proletariat to Precariat
Nonstandard workers have nothing to lose but their independent contractor status.
The Indypendent
Eric Laursen
Elder Abuse: Republicans threaten social security for future generations
Donald Trump is rolling out his White House team and forging alliances with Capitol Hill Republicans he once claimed…
Why Hillary Clinton is Beyond the Pale
It’s crunch time for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the most sweeping multilateral trade agreement since NAFTA. Fast-track authority…
The Democratic Party Eats Itself
When Barack Obama sent Congress his proposed annual budget on April 10, he became the first Democratic president to…
In the Bible—Book of Genesis, to be precise—Esau returns, exhausted and famished, from working in the fields, and sees…
Eric Laursen Secretary Department of Health and Human Services If ever there was a part of the Washington bureaucracy…
Pie in the Sky in Eastern Europe: The Ryan Plan in Action
It’s been reported that Paul Ryan is no longer pushing Social Security privatization. House Republican leaders last year “refused” to…
Back to Reagonomics: What Deficit Reduction and Tax Reform Really Mean for Working Americans
The press section was full when two far-right Republican senators, Tom Coburn of Oklahoma and Mike Crapo of Idaho,…
When the end of the housing bubble sent Wall Street into a nosedive, it created a disastrous economic downturn…
It was high drama on Capitol Hill in March, the culmination of a year-long, tooth-and-nail fight between Democrats and…