Digby, Hullabaloo AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. October 6, 2009. Goldman stands to receive a payment of $1 billion -- while U.S. taxpayers would lose $2.3 billion -- if embattled commercial lender CIT files bankruptcy.
Greg Palast, GregPalast.com. June 4, 2009. Stevie the Rat has a sinister plan for GM: grab its worker pension funds to pay off $6 billion in loans to the likes of JP Morgan and Citibank.
Michael Moore, MichaelMoore.com. June 1, 2009. The President -- and the United Auto Workers -- must seize this moment and create a big batch of lemonade from this very sour and sad lemon.
Deepak Bhargava, Center for Community Change. May 31, 2009. Without a public plan we will continue to lack a way to force improvements in private plans.
Ryan Grim, Huffington Post AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. May 1, 2009. Only 45 Senate Democrats voted Thursday to oppose the banking industry and pass legislation aimed at stemming foreclosures.
Mark Brenner, Mischa Gaus, Jane Slaughter, Labor Notes. April 1, 2009. If the car companies are too big to fail, too poorly run to put right, it’s time to take them over.
Nick Turse, Tomdispatch.com. February 23, 2009. Small towns are feeling the pain far worse than the rest of us, and no one knows how to stop the bleeding.
Zach Carter, Media Consortium AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. February 3, 2009. Lawmakers who actually care about the fate of the U.S. economy are furious.
Valeria Fernández, ColorLines. January 19, 2009. Latinos and Blacks are feeling the effects of foreclosures, job losses and increased debt most acutely.
Ella Hushagen, Stand Up for Health Care AlterNet: Health and Wellness. September 29, 2008. Medical debt is closely tied to the mortgage crisis that's pushing working families out of their homes and our economy to the brink of collapse.
Lindsay Beyerstein, Majikthise AlterNet: PEEK. May 7, 2008. The New York Times columnist is completely out of touch with the reality of ordinary Americans.
