Category: Economy
Ryancare: It’s a Tax Cut for the Rich
by The Washington Spectator | Apr 27, 2017 | Economy, PoliticsThe GOP Affordable Care Act replacement draft includes reforms promoted by Speaker of the House Paul Ryan since (and before) the passage of the ACA, including funding Medicaid with block grants to states and a per capita cap on Medicaid funding. The federal government pays a fixed share of states’ Medicaid costs. Under Ryancare, federal […]
Obama, Transformed
by Rick Perlstein | Jan 19, 2016 | Economy, Foreign Policy, Politics, Rickipediaphoto: whitehouse.gov They say the president gave his seventh State of the Union address last Tuesday, but personally, I count eight. On February 24, 2009, Barack Obama’s 35th full day in office, he delivered a speech to a joint session of Congress to explain how America had gotten into its economic mess and how his […]
The Ryan Budget: Know Your Enemy
by Lou Dubose | Dec 29, 2015 | Economy, Politics, The IntervalPhoto: Jory Heckman Hey yo, so check this out! Yeah! Know your enemy! –Rage Against the Machine Before he was Speaker, before he grew the Hugh Jackman beard, before we knew he was a Rage Against the Machine fan and that his playlist “starts with AC/DC and ends with Zeppelin,” Paul Ryan was a […]
Slow Burn: Bernie Sanders Ignites a Populist Movement
by Rick Perlstein | Oct 8, 2015 | Economy, PoliticsArt: Edel Rodriguez Nate Silver has the Bernie Sanders campaign figured out. Ignore what happens in Iowa and New Hampshire, the “data-driven” prognostication wizard wrote back in July, when Sanders was polling a healthy 30 percent to Clinton’s 46 percent in both contests. That’s only, Silver says, because “Democratic caucus-goers in Iowa and Democratic primary voters in […]
How Redlining Led to Rioting
by Richard Rothstein | Jun 15, 2015 | Economy, PoliticsA pattern has emerged—in Oakland, New York, Cleveland, Baltimore, the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson, and beyond. Police claiming to feel threatened kill unarmed black men. Protests follow, sometimes including violence. The Department of Justice finds a pattern and practice of racially-biased policing. The city agrees to train officers not to use excessive force, […]