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‘Obamaphones’: A Case Study in How Race Perverts the Spending Debate
by Jamilah King on April 8 2013, 7:20AM
Tea party Republicans have used race to demonize a longstanding government phone subsidy for people living in poverty.
Topics: Budget Cuts, Media, Politics
Obama Needs ‘Courage of His Convictions’ on Economic Justice, Too
by Imara Jones on March 28 2013, 6:00AM
The president officially acquiesced to the GOP’s economic hostage taking this week, again.
Topics: Budget Cuts, Economy
Sequestration and the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy to End Equity
by Imara Jones on March 1 2013, 8:46AM
A cruel chaos will unfold as billions of dollars in federal spending are chopped, starting today. But that chaos was always the real goal.
Topics: Budget Cuts, Economy
What’s ‘Sequestration’ Mean in Real Life?
by Imara Jones on February 20 2013, 9:50AM
An explanation of the trillion-dollar budget cuts that are set to begin in a matter of days.
Topics: Budget Cuts, Economy
The Simple Truth: You Can’t Have Growth and Austerity at Once
by Imara Jones on February 13 2013, 10:17AM
We’re two weeks away from yet another crop of austerity measures that make the sorts of ideas laid out in President Obama’s State of the Union simply impossible.
Topics: Budget Cuts, Economy, State of the Union
We’re Tumbling Over an Inequity Cliff
by Imara Jones on January 3 2013, 9:45AM
This week’s fiscal cliff deal codifies the absurd notion that the super rich and the working poor are the same. In so doing, it prevents us from really fixing our racial caste system.
Topics: Budget Cuts, Economy
We Can’t Fix Our Economy Without Confronting White Supremacy
by Imara Jones on December 21 2012, 10:06AM
Current fiscal policy has hardened a racial caste system in the U.S. And if we won’t name it, we can’t fix it.
Topics: Budget Cuts, Economy
The U.S. Doesn’t Have a Debt Problem. It Has a Crisis of Values.
by Imara Jones on August 3 2011, 10:15AM
The debt deal is an extension of the grand bargain Washington’s leaders made with Wall Street nearly four years ago: to save the wealthy at the expense of everyone else. The U.S. doesn’t have a debt problem; it has a values problem.
Topics: Budget Cuts, Economy
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