A few California local governments last week took a crucial step, almost unnoticed, to demand that banks pay back tens of millions of dollars which they...
TARP – the infamous Troubled Assets Relief Program that bailed out Wall Street in 2008 – is over. The Treasury Department announced it will be completing...
The following infographic first appeared with frugaldad.com‘s “College Isn’t Cheap” post and is republished with permission. » Read more about: The Spiraling Cost of College »
In 1996 I began working at the Parent Center of Wilmington Middle School. I quickly learned how students suffer from asthma, respiratory deficiencies, malnourishment, cancer and...
2013 is making it difficult to avoid one of America’s greatest sins—slavery. We’ve just marked the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, and a plethora of...
As President Obama prepares to nominate his current Chief of Staff, Jack Lew, to the Treasury Secretary position, attention to Lew’s record and loopy signature is...
Every year millions of Americans are victims of what some call wage theft — a practice in which a company fails to compensate workers for their...
Infographic Source: ACLU and aclu.org’s “Big Profits, Broken Dreams” » Read more about: How Banks Subprimed Black and Latino Morgtages »
The news today [January 4] from the Bureau of Labor Statistics is that the U.S. job market is treading water. The number of new jobs created...
December 12 marked the 65th anniversary of the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Probably most of us think first of human rights on the...
New Year’s resolutions are a bitch. You know you should eat more veggies, exercise regularly and do your bit to reduce suffering in the world. You...
I spent this weekend as a Santa Monica resident for the first time in seven years. Interesting! Technically my new digs are across the street, the...
UNITE HERE!-represented workers at Pleasanton, California’s Castlewood Country Club were locked out for two years before an NLRB administrative law judge finally ruled in their favor; Castlewood was...
As a nation, we’ve already given countless billions of dollars in gifts to the one percent in the form of tax cuts, loopholes and corporate subsidies....
Most job seekers take care to scrub evidence of last night’s party from their social media profiles, but the employment consequences of more nuanced online interactions...
The agreement passed last night is a breakthrough in beginning to restore tax fairness and achieves some key goals of working families. It does not cut...
Source: Zina Saunders on YouTube » Read more about: Honey, I Shrunk the Government! »
Question: What’s the difference between the European Barbarians like the Goths and Vandals (you know, the folks who looted and pillaged Europe and finished off the...
1. Protecting Families from Foreclosures. This year, California became the first state to enact reforms that ban the practice of foreclosing on a family seeking a...