Little Rock Polls out today from Brookings and the Public Religion Research Institute indicate that the American people continue to shift significantly to favor a legal path to citizenship for immigrants by a huge 70%+ majority among Democrats and over 50% for Republicans. The hater patrol stoked by rightwing radio and television only finds 17% …
Month: March 2013
Making Working Men More Economically Attractive
Little Rock The headline was no tipoff on this piece in the Times’ business section. Another article about how much the economics of single parent households really suck, blah, blah, blah, please tell us something we didn’t know, will ya? So they did by basically in so many words and with all due concern letting …
Chase and Other Banks Need Policing & Regulation on Pay Day Lending Abuses
Little Rock It takes a lot of newsprint and video clips to bring Jamie Dimon, the arrogant chief of JP Morgan Chase, one of USA’s largest banks, down but stories in the Times picked widely of Chase enabling predatory on-line payday lenders by allowing hundreds and thousands of overdraft and other fees to empty workers’ …