Center for American Progress Public Opinion By Ruy Teixeira | August 8, 2008 Evidence continues to accumulate that the public has a far different view on Afghanistan than on Iraq. The public thinks the war in Iraq was a mistake and wishes to see our troops withdrawn. Yet the public does not think the war [...]
Archive for August 8th, 2008
8 Aug
Factory Facts
Center for American Progress By Christian E. Weller, Diego Flores | August 4, 2008 U.S. manufacturers across the country have suffered dramatic job losses over the past seven years of economic growth, with these losses falling particularly hard on states that are heavily dependent on manufacturing and are now suffering the most as the U.S. [...]
8 Aug
Understanding Bushonomics
Center for American Progress How We Got Into This Mess in the First Place SOURCE: AP The Bush administration’s flawed tax, minimum wage, union, trade, and immigration policies have sunk us into an economic downturn. By Scott Lilly | August 4, 2008 Read the full report (pdf) In 1914, Henry Ford convinced the directors of [...]
8 Aug
Bushonomics
Center for American Progress ECONOMY A new Center for American Progress report released today – Understanding Bushonomics: How We Got Into This Mess In the First Place — documents “the extraordinary transfer of wealth that took place between ordinary households and the extremely well-to-do and the effort by this administration to address the consequences of [...]
8 Aug
The White House’s Weak Denials
By Dan Froomkin Special to washingtonpost.com Wednesday, August 6, 2008; 1:23 PM The allegation in Ron Suskind’s new book that the White House ordered the CIA to forge evidence of a link between Iraq and al Qaeda is so incredibly grave that it demands a serious response from the government. If what Suskind writes is [...]
