Sen. Warren’s Bill Gets Cold Shoulder as Student Loan Rates Spike Monday
Lauren McCauley / Common Dreams Despite the groundswell of support behind Senator Elizabeth Warren's (D-Mass.) popular student loan proposal, Senate leaders have dismissed the legislation opting...
View ArticleReaders Write: Where Will Modern Economy Theory Lead Us?
By Tom Hunter All those high falutin' economists from Harvard are somewhat muted with their economic models. Meanwhile, the real economic model being adopted in the United States is that of our largest...
View ArticleAB 10: Time is Ripe for California to Raise the Minimum Wage
By Martin J. Bennett/California Progress Report The New York Times recently characterized the economic recovery that officially began in 2009 as a "golden era for corporate profits." Indeed, corporate...
View ArticleThe Federal Reserve: Money Printer for Wall Street’s Benefit
This is Part 5 of a multipart series on Wall Street. Part 1 dealt with Republican economic philosophy over the last 30 years which has produced disastrous results for the American economy leading up...
View ArticleIs Your Vacation Stealing Your Life?
By Jim Miller Upon returning from my travels it was with some amusement that I noted the tag at the end of my “greatest hits” series of columns in June: “We’re re-running some of the best of his...
View ArticleThree Trends That Will Create Demand for an Unconditional Basic Income
Editors Note: From time to time I come across articles that challenge conventional thinking. Although this article was published in Britain, I think there's much that's relevant to our situation in the...
View ArticleGovernor Brown Signs Historic Enterprise Zone Reform Into Law
By Steve Smith/California Labor Federation For years, the state’s broken enterprise zone has been costing taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars while doing little to create new jobs. Even worse,...
View ArticleDarrell Issa’s Witch Hunt
Darrell Issa has brought more national political shame to San Diego than even "Enron by the Sea." By Andy Cohen San Diego's had a pretty rough couple of weeks. But really, the region's politically...
View ArticleSex in San Diego: Sex Work in America
By David Rosen / Alternet Three centuries before Las Vegas was founded, New York was known as sin city. It was home to drinking, gambling, and most especially, illicit sexual pleasures. One of New...
View ArticleThe US Has Not Created ONE Breadwinner Type Job in Over 10 Years
Only part time, temp and minimum wage jobs are being created By John Lawrence A breadwinner job is a job that is sufficient to support a family, including rent or mortgage, car payment, adequate food...
View ArticleDraconian Obstructions, Logical Fallacies and the Decline of America
By Ishmael Von Heidrick-Barnes Recently, I had to book a flight on a major airline using miles I had accrued with the carrier. What should have been a simple transaction turned into a time-consuming...
View ArticleSan Diego Zoo Targeted by NRA Activists
By Doug Porter The National Rifle Association is continually expanding its activities on many different fronts, and the newest of these campaigns, HuntForTruth.Org, has listed the San Diego Zoo as one...
View ArticleFive Reasons Congress Should Be Deeply Ashamed about Jobs
by Paul Buchheit / Common Dreams U.S. Representative Marlin Stutzman said, "Most people will agree that if you are an able bodied adult without any kids you should find your way off food stamps." That...
View ArticleProgressive Politics in the Post-Filner Era; Getting Beyond “BlenderGate”
By Doug Porter Rumors of the Filner’s imminent resignation swirled through the city yesterday like scraps of newsprint caught up in the wind eddies regularly whipping through San Diego’s downtown...
View ArticleWhat Should We Think About The Arrests at JPMorgan Chase?
By Richard Eskow/Campaign for America's Future Four years after Wall Street’s malfeasance dealt a telling blow the economy, and long after tens of billions of dollars have been paid out for banker...
View ArticleHealthcare in America and California: The Evils of Doing Nothing
By Andy Cohen There is an awful lot of misinformation being disseminated to the public about “Obamacare,” officially known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, mostly (exclusively?) by...
View ArticleCity Heights, Where the Wheels on the Bus Go Round and Round
Transit Dependent Communities, Social Equity and Environmental Justice By Anna Daniels There is no trolley route through City Heights. This deficiency is not for a lack of trying. In the early 1990's...
View ArticleInnovation Economy Symposium Highlights Role of Government Investment in...
Symposium brings prominent local and national figures together to discuss economic development issues. By Andy Cohen Congress is a mess right now. There are many, many problems that this iteration of...
View ArticleI-15 in City Heights: How a Freeway that Divided the Community Became an...
By Jim Bliesner When you drive North or South on I-15 between University Ave. and El Cajon Blvd. you can’t help but notice a few unique things, especially if you compare the ride to being on 805...
View ArticleObamacare Employer Mandate: Boon or Boondoggle?
By Andy Cohen The American healthcare system since World War II is based on employer supplied health insurance. It happened almost by accident, as tight wage controls prevented employers from offering...
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