| Nov 6, 2013 | Economy / BusinessScrooge has come early this year. He’s already kicking our Tiny Tims. This holiday season, kids in America’s poorest families will have less to eat. November 1 brought $5 billion in new cuts to the nation’s food stamp program, now officially known as...
| | Economy / BusinessWall Street analysts, corporate lobbyists, and front groups like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce form an exuberant cheering squad for maintaining the status quo of America’s do-nothing jobs policy. “Hooray!” they shout to our lawmakers, “The...
| Oct 30, 2013 | Economy / BusinessIn 1930, an obscure lawsuit against Bethlehem Steel unearthed some corporate data that would quickly outrage Great Depression-era America. Bethlehem CEO W. R. Grace, Americans learned, had grabbed $1.6 million in personal compensation the year before. That revelation...
| | Economy / BusinessWhere is the intellectual heir to Henry Ford, the great entrepreneur and inventor? He hated unions but famously boosted his workers’ pay so they could afford to buy the cars they built. There are far more jobs now assembling burgers than cars. And the people who...
| Oct 23, 2013 | Economy / BusinessOn a damp Friday morning, 11 days into the government shutdown, a few dozen truckers took to the Capital Beltway to tell lawmakers they were angry. They were protesting big government. Yet opinion polls showed that Americans opposed the government shutdown and were...
