by James Parks Two new reports show today’s young workers are being squeezed by high costs of living and low or stagnant wages and they want the government to do more to solve this nation’s economic mess. The Economic State of Young America by Demos presents a statistical study of the economic condition of young workers, and The Progressive Generation: […]
Can You Spend $3 Trillion Better than Bush?
– by Mike Hall It’s not easy spending $3 trillion. I tried (see below). But then again I wasn’t buying a quagmire in the Middle East. That price tag—$3 trillion—is what the Bush administration is spending on the war in Iraq, says Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz. The checks paid for with our taxpayers’ dollars that Bush is […]
East of Tragedy
The intimate portrait of a New Orleans East couple who are in the midst of rebuilding their home and recovering the pieces of a joyful life twenty months after the levees broke. Beatrice Haynes anxiously walked up to the single story home she and her husband Milton, both 48, have owned in New Orleans East […]