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Following months of damning headlines, subpoenas, and potentially career-ending revelations, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is trying to get back into the good graces of his right-wing backers by following a standard playbook – beating up on public workers.
The California Superior Court has rejected San Jose Mayor Reed’s attempt to throw out ballot language that accurately describes how his pension gutting scheme affects public employees.
Columnist and writer David Sirota tears the lid off of a seemingly innocuous new report by the Brookings Institute exposing that the research paper is actually just a deceptive “native advertising” campaign funded entirely by the John Arnold Foundation (John…
Governor Snyder and Kevyn Orr might consider this blueprint a “comeback” and “the best path forward,” but don’t believe the hype.
On December 18th, the Public Broadcasting Service’s flagship station WNET issued a press release announcing the launch of a new two-year news series entitled “The Pension Peril.” The series, promoting cuts to public employee pensions, is airing on hundreds of…
While Governor Snyder and Emergency Manager Orr may claim pensioners win out over Wall Street in the proposed bankruptcy settlement, the truth is that once again Detroit’s workers are getting the short end of the deal.
Senator Harkin has reaffirmed what we have known all along – that retirement security in this country is in crisis
When Louise Jordan walked through the doors of Abraham Lincoln High School in North Philadelphia 34 years ago, after landing her dream job as a special education teacher right out of college, she didn’t worry about her tiny salary —…
President Obama has rightly recognized that Americans are facing a retirement security crisis, which exacerbates the growing income inequality facing our nation’s middle class.
Despite admitting that the original swap deal may have been illegal, emergency manager Kevyn Orr, in partnership with Governor Snyder, continues to show preference to the Wall Street interests that impoverished the city at the expense of retirees who devoted…
Judge Rhodes has wisely recognized that Wall Street banks should not be rewarded for their role driving Detroit’s downward financial spiral, nor should their interests be prioritized over Detroit’s police officers, firefighters, and thousands of other public workers.
A series of new documents exposed by the Guardian yesterday revealed how the right-wing is coordinating efforts to decimate the middle class, including a large-scale effort to gut public pensions across the country.