budget crisis

Right-wing “blizzard narrative” is anti-worker snow job

February 2, 2011 By Tony Pecinovsky

As a massive winter storm pounds much of the country, the tea party/Republicans are pushing a disastrous narrative: strangle vital public services, like snowplowing, then blame public workers and their unions.

Ohio rallies show surging anger over cuts

January 18, 2011 By Rick Nagin

Militant rallies in Columbus and Cincinnati on Friday voiced mounting anger at threats by Republican Gov. John Kasich to slash jobs, services and union rights.

Anger erupts over slash-to-the-bone state budget

December 22, 2010 By Tim Wheeler

SEATTLE - Public employee unions and the people they serve denounced the budget unveiled by Gov. Chris Gregoire, which slashes vital services and jobs.

A do-it-yourself kit on plutocracy and the deficit

November 22, 2010 By Sam Pizzigati

How can you tell whether you live in a plutocracy? Easy. Just conduct this simple test.

The Afghanistan deficit

November 18, 2010 By PW Editorial Board

Over the next four years, if we don't start winding this war down, it will cost $260 billion to $400 billion: more than half, or nearly all, of the projected deficit.