Month: May 2012

There’s no such thing as a free lunch, nor even a reduced-price lunch, when it comes to educating our children.

The debt crisis in Greece has any number of solutions. One has the rich of Greece all agog with fond expectations.

Families with two breadwinners can end up paying more than twice as much in Social Security taxes as families with just one income.

California can and should find the $1 billion it needs to maintain its current bare-bones CalWORKs support.

Historically, austerity has always hit hardest on those who have the most to lose: the rich and powerful. Today’s austerity has reversed that historic pattern — and widened the gap between society’s most financially fortunate and everyone else.

America’s corporations are doing better than ever. Corporate profits are at all-time record highs. Corporate taxes are at record lows. So, why are the top 1 percent so angry?

Europe’s big banks and vulture hedge funds should pay the price for austerity, not government workers and the poor.

Europeans must decide whether their societies are to be governed by the people, for the people or by the market, for the market.