CBO: Obamacare Will Thin Full-Time Workforce by 2 Million

Staff / Truthdig Feb 5, 2014 The Congressional Budget Office offered more fodder Tuesday for opponents of Obamacare to hate on the Affordable Care Act -- should they choose to spin the facts and figures. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Budget Report Proves Krugman Right, Coulter Says ‘Screw You’ to Obama, and More

Tracy Bloom / Truthdig Feb 6, 2013 A look at the day's political happenings, including a Republican flip-flop on immigration reform and Chris Christie pokes fun at himself on "The Late Show with David Letterman." Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Fiscal Cliff Deal Would Add Trillions to Deficit

Tracy Bloom / Truthdig Jan 2, 2013 Instead of deficit reduction, it appears the fiscal cliff deal that was passed in the Senate early Tuesday morning would only add to the federal government's budget problems. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Ryan’s Budget Figures Don’t Add Up

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Aug 17, 2012 Certain media pundits' hearts are aflutter over how honest, intellectual and responsible GOP vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan supposedly is. But not economics professor Bill Black, who shows that Ryan's "Tinker Bell" budget proposal uses numbers that have nothing to do with the economy to achieve fiscal balance in the next few decades. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Dismal Reports From Two U.S. Inequality Studies

Staff / Truthdig Oct 29, 2011 The 1 percenters targeted by those leading the Wall Street occupation had a profitable run between 1979 and 2007. Their average after-tax income grew 275 percent in that period, while income for the 60 percent of the population in the middle of the earning scale grew by just under 40 percent. (more) Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Have and Have-Not Nation

Eugene Robinson / Truthdig Oct 28, 2011 The hard-right conservatives who dominate the Republican Party claim to despise the redistribution of wealth, but secretly they love it -- as long as the process involves depriving the poor and middle class to benefit the rich, not the other way around. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Thirty Years of Unleashed Greed

Robert Scheer / Truthdig Oct 27, 2011 It is class warfare But it was begun not by the tear-gassed, rain-soaked protesters asserting their constitutionally guaranteed right of peaceful assembly but rather the financial overlords who control all of the major levers of power in what passes for our democracy But it was not begun by the tear-gassed, rain-soaked protesters asserting their constitutionally guaranteed right of peaceful assembly. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Score One for Skepticism

Ruth Marcus / Truthdig Mar 19, 2010 Democrats are delighted with the Congressional Budget Office's analysis of their health care bill, but the Republicans have good reason to be skeptical. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )