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North Carolina Clergy Jailed While Praying for ’21st Century George Wallace’ Governor

by Brentin Mock on April 30 2013, 1:35PM

Seventeen arrests were made at a North Carolina protest.

Topics: Budget Cuts, /NOW Blog, Politics

Obama’s Budgetary Dance With the Devil

by Imara Jones on April 5 2013, 1:51PM

The president’s budget negotiations go from bad to worse.

Topics: Economy, /NOW Blog

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

The State of Obama’s Presidency

by Imara Jones on February 8 2013, 8:57AM

In his annual address to Congress on Tuesday, the president will consider the state of our union. His first assessment must be of himself and his relationship to House Republicans.

Topics: Economy, Politics, State of the Union

What’s Really at Stake as We Stare Down the Fiscal Cliff [Infographic]

by Hatty Lee, Imara Jones on December 6 2012, 9:24AM

Fiscal policy can be confusing, all the more so when everyone’s spinning misinformation. So Hatty Lee and Imara Jones offer a visual explanation of this latest debate.

Topics: Economy, Fiscal Cliff

Romney’s Budget Idea: Double Down on Inequity, Create a New Recession

by Imara Jones on September 13 2012, 9:47AM

At their core, Romney’s priorities assert that the few should have more, and that the rest of us should pay for it.

Topics: 2012 Election, Economy, Politics

Medicare and Medicaid Are Not Safe From the Debt Deal Cuts

by Amara Nwosu on August 5 2011, 10:46AM

Both programs are enormously important to health coverage for people of color.

Topics: Health

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

Debt Deal Casualties May Include College Aid for Poor Students

by Shani O. Hilton on August 1 2011, 1:30PM

Tea party Republicans were willing to let the debt ceiling deadline pass in order to block Pell Grant funding, which one member has called “welfare of the 21st century.” The student aid program may be among the most vulnerable in the coming round of cuts.

Topics: Debt Deal, Politics, Schools & Youth

The Tea Party Says, Yes, We Can! (Then Actually Changes Stuff)

by Kai Wright on August 1 2011, 11:21AM

The most consequential change to our political landscape in 2008 may not have been Obama’s election, but rather the right’s response to it.

Topics: Debt Deal, Kai Wright, Politics

Who’s Gonna Care for the Aging Boomers? Poor, Immigrant Women

by Shani O. Hilton on July 13 2011, 10:39AM

As the GOP pushes Medicare and Medicaid cuts, advocates urge Congress to make the programs work for three million home-care givers making poverty-wages—and the ballooning number of people who depend upon them.

Topics: Economy, Health

Is Anyone Fighting For Your Town’s Library? [Reader Forum]

by Channing Kennedy on June 5 2011, 2:19PM

As cash-strapped city governments across the country talk library closures, we ask what’s at stake for your community.

Topics: Budget

Why Aren’t We Paying More Attention to the People’s Budget?

by Shani O. Hilton on May 5 2011, 12:30PM

Observers say a plan crafted by the Congressional People’s Caucus offers a good alternative to those offered by Obama and the GOP.

Topics: Budget

A Closer Look at What Got Chopped in This Year’s Budget

by Shani O. Hilton on April 22 2011, 4:59PM

Among the worst examples of things that will do nothing to cut the deficit: a fund for the upkeep public housing.

Topics: Budget

Six Public Goods That Have Shaped My Life—Or, Why Taxes Are Cool

by Kai Wright on April 15 2011, 9:47AM

My mom’s retirement, the subway, books in Washington and more. Chime in with your own examples of why we should all be happy to contribute to the collective good.

Topics: Budget, Kai Wright

CBC Drops Its Own Budget: $5.7 Trillion Deficit Cut Without Gutting Programs

by Shani O. Hilton on April 14 2011, 1:04PM

It’s been a tradition every year since 1981, but this year’s budget battle gives the proposal new significance.

Topics: Politics

Obama’s Government Spending Pitch: The Great Society Is Patriotic

by Kai Wright on April 14 2011, 10:43AM

Obama says America’s safety net makes it great. But that’s only been true since the 1960s, and the GOP is at the endgame in a decades-long effort to undue it.

Topics: Budget, Kai Wright

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