budget crisis

Austerity is wrong medicine for bleeding economy

November 17, 2010 By Sam Webb

What is delaying an economic recovery is not too much spending and a growing deficit, but not enough federal spending.

Golden State hanging on by its fingernails

October 7, 2010 By Marilyn Bechtel

California’s budget may be about to stagger over the finish line, nearly 100 days late - but it won't be pretty.

Economists predict stormy weather ahead

October 6, 2010 By John Case

In a live webcast conference yesterday, top left-to-moderate economists painted a grim picture, especially with the current Republican-induced paralysis in Congress.

GOP “pledge” condemned as flim-flam

September 24, 2010 By John Wojcik

It's being called a "public relations" ploy, a kind of "Herbert Hoover economics," whose "numbers don't add up.."

Rehire all laid-off teachers, rally demands

September 23, 2010 By John Bachtell

"I'm carrying my purse, because they are trying to steal from us. I'm not wearing my earrings because we are in a fight!" declared Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis.