This Week in Poverty: What We Talk About When We Talk About Poverty This Week in Poverty: What We Talk About When We Talk About Poverty
In the second presidential debate, Governor Romney used the word poverty without saying anything of substance about it. President Obama didn’t use the word at all but managed...
Oct 19, 2012 / Greg Kaufmann
The Fiscal Cliff X-Factor: The Debt Ceiling The Fiscal Cliff X-Factor: The Debt Ceiling
If Republicans take the debt ceiling hostage again, it could hurt the administration’s leverage for the fiscal cliff.
Oct 18, 2012 / George Zornick
Greg Palast: Mitt Romney Made Millions From the Auto Bailout Greg Palast: Mitt Romney Made Millions From the Auto Bailout
The Romneys invested millions in a hedge fund that bought GM’s autoparts division, and it paid off big-time.
Oct 18, 2012 / Press Room
Walmart Workers Walk Out Walmart Workers Walk Out
In the latest action against the union-busting low-wage retailer, labor organizers may have finally found a strategy that works.
Oct 17, 2012 / Liza Featherstone
Why Do Some of America’s Wealthiest Individuals Have Fingers in Louisiana’s Education System? Why Do Some of America’s Wealthiest Individuals Have Fingers in Louisiana’s Education System?
The extremely wealthy are out to destroy public education, and reap the benefits.
Oct 17, 2012 / Matthew Cunningham-Cook
Mitt Romney’s Bailout Bonanza Mitt Romney’s Bailout Bonanza
How Mitt and Ann made millions—and Mitt’s hedge fund donors made billions—from the auto-industry rescue that he condemned.
Oct 17, 2012 / Feature / Greg Palast
Hershey’s Charity for Children Became GOP Slush Fund Hershey’s Charity for Children Became GOP Slush Fund
A new attorney general in Pennsylvania could launch a real investigation into the diversion of charitable resources to luxury golf and Republican politics.
Oct 17, 2012 / Feature / F. Frederic Fouad
What Does Mitt Romney Really Want for Women? What Does Mitt Romney Really Want for Women?
Add contraception and pay equity to the list of issues Romney keeps waffling on.
Oct 17, 2012 / Bryce Covert
Obama Outsources Romney Obama Outsources Romney
A dramatically more aggressive president called his challenger out again and again in a decade that saw Obama tell Toledo Romney’s “the last person who’s going to...
Oct 17, 2012 / John Nichols
Greg Kaufmann: Why Are Politicians Ignoring Poverty? Greg Kaufmann: Why Are Politicians Ignoring Poverty?
American voters care about rising inequality in the US. So why don’t presidential candidates seem to?
Oct 16, 2012 / Press Room