Part three of Al Jazeera’s Meltdown, "Paying the Price." Excellent, excellent, excellent.

Part two of Al Jazeera’s Meltdown, "A Global Financial Tsunami." Excellent, excellent, excellent.

Part one of Al Jazeera’s Meltdown, "The Men Who Crashed the World." Excellent, excellent, excellent.

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–October 12, 2011.  As Occupy Wall Street protests continue to sweep across the nation, the Center for American Progress released a column examining the valid grievances of the 99 percent and the ways in which this growing movement is giving voice to their concerns. The column outlines five chief[Read More…]

Bill Guts Health, Education, and Workplace Support for Middle Class, Preserves Protections for Top 1 Percent Washington D.C.—(ENEWSPF)—October 12, 2011.  Today, the Center for American Progress issued a series of resources finding that the House Appropriation Bill represents yet another sweeping attack on health, education, and workplace support for middle-class[Read More…]

Again, from the Washington Post: January 2009 had the worst of circumstances — a once-in-a-lifetime economic emergency during a presidential transition. Reinhart, for one, thinks the Bush and Obama administrations don’t get sufficient credit for all they did. “The initial policy of monetary and fiscal stimulus really made a huge[Read More…]

In his 2007 book The Conscience of a Liberal, Nobel laureate Paul Krugman reports that, compared to the 1950s when the average CEO made 30 times what the average employee made in his company, CEOs were garnering 300 times the average worker’s pay. That’s incredible. In case math matters any[Read More…]

In his 2007 book The Conscience of a Liberal, Nobel laureate Paul Krugman reports that, compared to the 1950s when the average CEO made 30 times what the average employee made in his company, CEOs were garnering 300 times the average worker’s pay. That’s incredible. In case math matters any[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–October 5, 2011.  Today the Center for American Progress and Brandeis University released a groundbreaking report detailing the social and economic costs of hunger in America. The report, “Hunger in America, Suffering We All Pay For,” finds that in addition to federal expenditures to address hunger, the social and[Read More…]

WASHINGTON, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–October 4, 2011.  AARP’s Public Policy Institute has released a new report that provides a nationwide snapshot of the changing housing landscape for boomers and elders. “The AARP State Housing Profiles” and its brief summary “Housing for Older Adults: The Impacts of the Recession” updates and expands on a[Read More…]