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At one turn, the Republicans are extolling small business as the engine of job creation . (Remember hearing this oft-repeated line during t...

1.7 Million Without Electricity

The Journal-Sentinel asserts a "disease" is spreading throughout the Milwaukee Police Dept. " A tolerance for outrageous be...

Scott Walker's budget solution for Wisconsin is to gamble more public dollars at the Wall Street casino . " Walker said he wants ...

$4.8 trillion of this (if we include the total $1 trillion, pre-Reagan, debt as the Democrats' debt), for argument's sake,  can b...

A telling line from a recent Paul Krugman column  (about our inadequate response to the second worst economic downturn in our history), ...

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The credit system, which has its focal point in the allegedly national banks and the big money-lenders and usurers that surround them, is o...

Bankers' Salaries vs. Everyone Else's Facts & Fiction About Student Loans First Look At U.S. Pay Data, It's Awful How T...

For those right-wingers endlessly blathering on about big government and runaway spending, Paul Krugman explains , "I f you want smalle...

The Green Bay Packers have the best owners in football.

No job growth and shitty pay at current positions. Definitely a recipe for an angry electorate.  According to Republicans, Preside...

Republicans - along with Ben Nelson, Mark Pryor and Joe Lieberman - have blocked a second attempt at a jobs bill.

Paul Ryan tells student to work three jobs rather than take Pell Grants.

Let's see...Republicans have: cheered executions , cheered letting the uninsured die, booed a gay soldier, and, now, have cheered blam...

Now, it appears,  South Milwaukee has succumb to the siren song of Walmart. For Further Reading: Always the low-road strategy Cudahy: ...

Republican cynicism and misdirection during a recession garnered Republican election victories and, thus, they have pushed their sweeping a...

As Unions Weaken So Does Middle Class Blue States To The Rescue. Again. China Labor Costs Push Jobs Back To U.S. CEO Pay Soaring Death O...

The American Planning Association named the Milwaukee RiverWalk one of America's Great Public Spaces for 2011.

But they can't make you buy insurance. The Colbert Report Get More: Colbert Report Full Episodes , Political Humor & Satire B...

Are Wisconsin Public Employees Over-Compensated? Child Poverty Rose Dramatically In Wisconsin Last Year Does Right-To-Work Create Jobs? J...

In an  article  celebrating the Milwaukee area's good job growth, the most concealing quote has to be,  "It's possible to have ...

By now we've all heard about the "crisis" at the U.S. Postal Service. But, in what seems more Republican smoke and mirrors, th...

The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities latest research highlights the drastic effect of the Scott Walker budget on education funding f...

Do Regulations Kill Jobs? Not So Much. I'd Rather Be An Unlucky Ducky Is Junk Food Really Cheaper? Rick Perry Has A Heart The Lake L...

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Walker may call special jobs session. I thought he already knew how to create  250,000  jobs?

Jared Bernstein (with the help of Lawrence Mishel) dispels the right-wing talking-point of "uncertainty": "Larry Mishel, ...

When a news anchor actually asks pointed questions, or wants explanations for certain actions or policies, it's now considered " gr...

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As usual, Elizabeth Warren is making sense. “You built a factory out there? Good for you. But I want to be clear: you moved your goods to ...

Shouldn't those investigative watchdogs at the Journal Sentinel be doing a bit more in-depth analysis of the expanding scandal involvin...

One revealing graph which precisely and decisively dismantles the Republican myth of job creation and low taxes. Lets get b...

It's good to see someone is keeping an eye on Scott Walker and his crony capitalism. Corps of Engineers questions Wisconsin rewriting ...

Some illustrative graphs from Dave Gilson and Carolyn Perot.

An Analysis of the Impact of Proposed 2012 Milwaukee County Transit Service Reductions on Access to Employment. "The principal findin...

According to Calculated Risk , " The value of household real estate has fallen $6.6 trillion from the peak - and is still falling in 20...

Great new study by the Project on Government Oversight  (POGO). More real-world, empirical evidence that privatization does not save money. ...

Chile's Privatization Failures Contracting Out Costs Government Lots Extra Higher Fees Paid to U.S. Physicians Historically Low Taxes...

" There has been a big rise in federal debt, but this has gone along with a collapse in private borrowing, so that overall debt growth...

The boring truth about Social Security By Ezra Klein There was a long and mostly confused conversation about Social Security during Wednesda...

A new book from Dean Baker. Contents 1 Upward Redistribution of Income ....... 1 2 Where We Are and How We Got Here........ 12 3 The Grea...

Mark Neumann (in what seems a continual run for any vacant elected public office) kicked off his Wisconsin Senate campaign with a right-wing...

This is NOT democracy. For Further Reading: Gerrymandering Gerrymandering elections Redistricting or gerrymandering? Walker signs gerryma...

The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities comments , " In Wisconsin , lawmakers enacted over $90 million in new tax cuts for corporati...

Benjamin Landy reports , "P roductivity -– a measure of economic efficiency in terms of output per hour worked -– actually grew at the ...

I'm sure the Republicans (whom are kept awake at night worrying about debt and our children) just forgot to be outraged by the fact that...

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Great way to get national headlines .

Everything's Made in China? Not Quite. The Hope That Flows From History Our Sputtering Economy A Second Great Depression, or Worse? Stop...

States most dependent on federal spending:

Bruce Bartlett sums up Rick Perry very nicely:

We actually have empirical evidence that shows higher tax rates , than we currently have, result in increased revenues and a better quality ...