Could the Sacramento Valley become a California Rust Belt? Major businesses are closing and smaller ones too. There’s no recovery yet from the recession
The two major California public pension funds have a combined unfunded liability of about $72 billion, yet Gov. Brown just postponed pension reform.
The voters of Wisconsin rebuffed public unions when the attempted recall of Governor Scott Walker fell desperately short of its goal.
Today, women’s rights issues return to center stage in Washington D.C., with the Senate set to vote on a piece of legislation aiming to prevent wage discrimination on the basis of gender.
Even as Republicans and Democrats frame the Wisconsin recall election in partisan terms, polls show that Independents might decide who wins.
Mexican immigration has slowed dramatically over the last decade, and net migration may even be negative now.
The situation in Georgia is so bad that state officials have asked its prison population to pick a vast crop of onions. The ensuing farm labor shortage begs an important question: in a nation with so many jobless claims, why are there so many unfilled jobs?
