Bill Black on the SOTU
…‘balanced approach’ to program proposals: 1) on infrastructure re-building but not much on who will pay for it, 2) emphasizing education but in the frame of tackling rising tuition rates…
…‘balanced approach’ to program proposals: 1) on infrastructure re-building but not much on who will pay for it, 2) emphasizing education but in the frame of tackling rising tuition rates…
…austerity measures. When the private sector isn’t spending, government needs to. But we should spend wisely–infrastructure spending, for example, might make a lot more sense than military intervention spending, as…
…left to free market influences which is content with investing profits elsewhere other than job creating infrastructure.) GROSS: So you don’t think the bailouts were too friendly to Wall Street?…
…in upgrading their education and infrastructure systems enough that they again become attractive to companies and startups and young professionals. Some of whom, recall, cherish Social Security and Medicare because…
…Those problems– poverty, limited opportunity due to lowerclass status, lack of educational access, climate change and infrastructure needs–all relate to the increasing inequality among our people, the ability of the…
…want to decimate earned benefit programs like Medicare and Social Security. Invest more in physical infrastructure, particularly mass transit and environmentally sounder energy policies. Don’t listen so much to the…
…was built with public money or benefits from public infrastructure built specifically nearby. This money, as many studies have shown, does not provide much economic benefit to the surrounding community….
…pay for the vital infrastructure repairs that need to be made and to ensure that we do not default on a key obligation to our people–the provision of a decent…
…their benefits, as well as building the infrastructure that made it easier for those children to make money than it had been for their elders. They also noted that none…
…costs of the infrastructure to sustain an economy and a people. Tax policy, spending policy, policy towards workers, policy towards the wealthy uber-rich–these are all closely intertwined and must be…