Ten Things You Should Know About #TheRealTANF Ten Things You Should Know About #TheRealTANF
TANF authorization expires at the end of March. The program isn’t what you think it is.
Feb 19, 2013 / Greg Kaufmann
Obama Takes a Stand Against Austerity Obama Takes a Stand Against Austerity
He may not have achieved the full FDR, but the president’s State of the Union speech, like his Inaugural, displayed a welcome progressive spirit.
Feb 13, 2013 / The Editors
Stop Coddling the Big Banks Stop Coddling the Big Banks
Financial institutions that are Too Big to Fail are also Too Big to Exist—something conservatives and progressives should be able to agree on.
Feb 12, 2013 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Eliminating Saturday Postal Service Threatens Vote-by-Mail Democracy Eliminating Saturday Postal Service Threatens Vote-by-Mail Democracy
Election officals across the country express concerns about the USPS move to cut delivery. Congress should take note and block the cut.
Feb 8, 2013 / John Nichols
This Week in Poverty: Revealing the Real TANF This Week in Poverty: Revealing the Real TANF
The TANF program expires in March, and the American people need to know what it’s all about before it’s renewed.
Feb 8, 2013 / Greg Kaufmann
The Missing Link in Obama’s Liberalism The Missing Link in Obama’s Liberalism
The president's inaugural address touched all the important bases, except one.
Feb 6, 2013 / Column / Eric Alterman
The Great Regression The Great Regression
The decline of the progressive income tax and the rise of inequality.
Feb 6, 2013 / Feature / Sam Pizzigati and Chuck Collins
Twenty Years After the FMLA, Our Family Leave Policies Are Dragging Us Down Twenty Years After the FMLA, Our Family Leave Policies Are Dragging Us Down
The rest of the developed world has left us in the dust since we enacted the Family and Medical Leave Act in 1993.
Feb 5, 2013 / Bryce Covert
Bill Clinton Calls for US Companies to Send Home Billions Banked Offshore Bill Clinton Calls for US Companies to Send Home Billions Banked Offshore
At the Rev. Jesse Jackson’s Wall Street Project event, Clinton said taxes earned on up to 1.7 trillion repatriated dollars should be used to build a jobs-creating infrastruct...
Feb 4, 2013 / Alleen Brown
A Few Good (and Fair) Tax Hikes A Few Good (and Fair) Tax Hikes
Before we’re forced to pick our flavor of austerity, we should close tax loopholes in the financial sector to raise much-needed revenue.
Feb 4, 2013 / Katrina vanden Heuvel