Report: Michigan public workers not 'overcompensated'
It won't make any difference to the propagandists, of course, but a favorite Republican myth took another hit Thursday. Following up on his nationwide report showing public employees are not more...
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Open thread for night owls: Bullying and overworked dads
A new study has found a strong correlation between the amount of time a father doesn't spend with his child and bullying. Conducted by Andre Christie-Mizell, associate professor of sociology at...
View ArticleRevised data: Carbon emission costs underestimated
Ever since analysts began in the 1980s trying to calculate the social costs of our dependence on carbon-based fuel, the results have been questioned. In 2010, basing its conclusions on three federal...
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Open thread for Night Owls: Surveillance
At The Nation, John Nichols writes, House GOP Rejects Requirement That PATRIOT Act Surveillances Be Conducted in Compl[ia]nce With Constitution:Less than a month after making a show of reading the U.S....
View ArticleFlorida Gov. Scott rejects high-speed rail money
A third myopic governor has joined two others who have turned down federal money to build high-speed rail in their states. Gov. Rick Scott, the tea party-backed Republican elected last November, told...
View ArticleStates that spent stimulus on repairs and public transportation created more...
Despite evidence showing that spending on public transportation and road and bridge repairs produces far more jobs and does so faster than new construction, most states and Metropolitan Planning...
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Open thread for night owls: Sending wind jobs away
At SolveClimate, Maria Galluci writes:President Obama's recent visit to a Wisconsin town to trumpet its cleantech success has inadvertently shone a spotlight on the state's new governor and his plans...
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Gallup: Jobs No. 1 concern of Americans
Given that 13.9 million people are still officially out of work, 6.2 million of them for more than six months, with another 8.4 million underemployed, 2.8 million so discouraged they haven't looked for...
View ArticleMinority restaurant workers get the shaft
Workers of color on average earn $3.71 less an hour than white workers, a survey of 4300 of restaurant employees in eight cities has concluded. Full-time restaurant workers earn an average of $15,000 a...
View ArticleGov. Scott blasted on high-speed rail funds. Gov. Brown says money 'welcome...
Florida editorial writers and some fellow Republicans are giving newly elected Gov. Rick Scott a thrashing over what can only fairly be described as his loony rejection of federal funding for the first...
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Open thread for Night Owls: Betraying public workers
At The Nation, Robert Pollin and Jeffrey Thompson write The Betrayal of Public Workers:The Great Recession did blow a massive hole in state and municipal government finances, with tax...
View ArticleResistance spreads in Iran, Yemen, Bahrain, Algeria, Libya
With the revolutionary events in Tunisia and Egypt as their inspiration, rebels have begun or are continuing protests throughout North Africa and the Middle East. Every country's unique history and...
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Indiana deputy attorney general's proposal for dealing with protesters? Shoot...
On Saturday night, Adam Weinstein, an editor at Mother Jones, entered into a Twitter "discussion" with Jeff Cox, a lawyer who draws a paycheck courtesy of Indiana taxpayers as one of the state's 144...
View ArticleAlleged deficit hawks surrender billions in revenue to oil companies
Republicans as well as some what-can-they-possibly-be-thinking Democrats keep explaining how the government needs to pinch its pennies, even if that means cutting Head Start and other programs designed...
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Open thread for night owls: A page out of FDR's playbook - Rural broadband
At New Deal 2.0, David Woolner, a Senior Fellow and Hyde Park Resident Historian for the Roosevelt Institute, writes, Obama Can Revolutionize Rural America with Broadband, FDR-style:FDR brought...
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Libya a personal matter at my house
The unfolding events in North Africa and the Middle East have had special impact at my house. My stepchildren were raised in Libya, living there until they were reunited with their mother after 15...
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Wisconsin, Ohio public employees are not overpaid
Contrary to conventional wisdom that public employees across our nation are collecting bigger paychecks than their counterparts in the private sector, the Economic Policy Institute has found quite the...
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Open thread for night owls: China's 'jasmine dream'
At Asia Times, Peter Lee writes Smelling Salts for China's Jasmine Dream:With its ceaseless calls for "stability", China's government has backed itself into a Confucian corner. "Instability" - a...
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Green Diary Rescue returns
Today the Green Diary Rescue begins anew. It will appear every Saturday afternoon. I was going to save this re-debut for Earth Day but decided not to wait.The GDR and the Eco-Diary Rescue that preceded...
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Destitution in the 'colonias' of South Texas
At The Atlantic, Alex Hannaford writes In the "colonias" communities of South Texas, thousands live without running water, sanitation, or electricity: Colonias — impoverished communities along the...
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