Tag: Budget

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Gov’t May Blend FDA, USDA

Reports: What Real Education Reform Looks Like

Reports: The Easiest Way to Cut the Deficit

A/V Booth: Raw Video: Berkeley Police Clash With Students

A/V Booth: ‘Left, Right & Center’: Relief in Europe, Inequality in America

Reports: Speaking Up for That ‘1 Percent’

Ear to the Ground: The Push to Preserve the Postal Service

Ear to the Ground: Obama Will Make the Wealthy Pay for His Jobs Bill

Ear to the Ground: Eric Cantor Exploits Disaster, Pushing Budget Cuts

Reports: The Wrong Problem ‘Solved’

A/V Booth: Kabuki Dancing on the Debt Ceiling

Reports: Obama Losing Patience as Republicans Panic

Reports: ‘Entitlement’ Is a Republican Word

Reports: The GOP’s Sick Priorities

Cartoons: Eat the Poor

A/V Booth: ‘Left, Right & Center’: Jobs, Budget, Murdoch, Space

Ear to the Ground: No Fireworks for Cash-Strapped Cities

A/V Booth: What California’s Devastating Budget Says About Democrats

Ear to the Ground: California Passes $86 Billion Budget Without New Taxes

Reports: The Economy Is Bad Enough

A/V Booth: ‘Left, Right & Center’: Troop Timetable, Budget Breakdown, Fed Forecast

Ear to the Ground: Gov. Walker Targets Wisconsin’s Craft Breweries

A/V Booth: ‘Left, Right & Center’: Job Problems, Budget Battles, Romney Runs

Reports: No Need to Demagogue the Ryan Plan

Reports: Cutting Kids’ Health Care Will Make Deficits Bigger

Reports: Budget Problems, America? Try Ending Your Many Wars

Reports: Our Imagination Deficit

Reports: The Tea Party Is Yesterday’s News

Ear to the Ground: Pennsylvania House Takes Aim at Unemployment Payouts

Ear to the Ground: Infamous Colorado Anti-Tax Crusader Is Busted

Reports: A Generation of Termites?

Reports: Watch Out for Ryan, Not Trump

Reports: Why ‘False Choices’ Still Matter

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Slapped With ‘Negative’ Credit Outlook

Cartoons: Budget Similarities

Cartoons: Where Is the Exit?

Cartoons: Step by Step Deficit Solution

Reports: Democrats Can Win the Budget Debate

Reports: Lines in the Sand

Ear to the Ground: Budget Bill Gets House’s Vote

Reports: Demanding the Impossible

Cartoons: Attack of the GOP Budget Rider Leeches

Cartoons: Gubment Cheese

Ear to the Ground: Congress Dances to the Edge, Averts Shutdown

Reports: Ryan’s Plan Neither Serious nor Courageous

A/V Booth: Joseph Stiglitz on the Budget and ‘the 1%’

Reports: The Right’s War on Moderation

Ear to the Ground: Government Agencies Prepare for Shutdown, Pols Fight Over Pocket Change

Ear to the Ground: Arizona Wants to Punish Bad Health Habits

A/V Booth: ‘Left, Right & Center’: Libya, Budget Battle, GOP Lineup

Reports: Why the Reckless Republicans Win

Reports: Obama, Meet Obama

Reports: Time for a Little Education

Ear to the Ground: Whose Side Is the New York Times On, Part 2

Reports: March of the Deficit Pandas

Reports: Afghanistan MIA From Deficit Debate

Reports: The High Cost of a Broken Metaphor

Ear to the Ground: Beware of Arne Duncan’s Tricks

A/V Booth: ‘Left, Right & Center’: Budget Showdowns, Libya, Newt in 2012?

Reports: For Governors: Responsibility Equals Invisibility

Reports: The Battle of the Budgets: New Fronts in the Afghan and Iraq Wars

Ear to the Ground: Shutdown Looking Unlikely on Capitol Hill

A/V Booth: ‘Left, Right & Center’: Mideast and the Midwest

Reports: Uprisings: From the Middle East to the Midwest

Reports: The Madison-Washington Connection

Reports: The Tea Party Is Winning

Cartoons: Budget Cuts

Reports: Obama’s Budget: Freezing the Poor

A/V Booth: Obama Brings Budget Plan to Captive Audience of Middle Schoolers

Ear to the Ground: Obama Plays It Down the Middle

Reports: Can Obama Be Luke Skywalker?

Ear to the Ground: Wisconsin Governor Moves to Gut Public Sector Unions

A/V Booth: ‘Left, Right & Center’: Mubarak Steps Down; Budget Wars

Ear to the Ground: Bad News Bernanke Strikes Again

Reports: State Budget Cuts Are Bad for Your Health

Reports: Governor Laser Beam

Reports: Cow Most Sacred: Why Military Spending Remains Untouchable

Reports: Discretion Advised

Ear to the Ground: Orszag Sees Turbulent Times Ahead

Reports: The Story of a Lifetime

Reports: Washington Loves a Paradox

Ear to the Ground: We Really Do Spend More Than $1 Trillion on War

Ear to the Ground: Obama Signs Big, Pricey Food Bill

Ear to the Ground: So Much for Bipartisanship

Ear to the Ground: White House Proposes Federal Pay Freeze

Ear to the Ground: Iran’s Parliament Schemes to Impeach Ahmadinejad

Reports: The Earmark Sideshow

Reports: La Vie en Denial

Reports: The Imperial Defense of Pentagon Bloat

Reports: A Generation of Termites

Ear to the Ground: The Lowdown on Trickle-Down

Reports: The Tax-Cut Hand Grenade

Reports: Let’s Be Honest About Taxes

Ear to the Ground: Despite New Cuts, Obama Will Spend More than Bush on Military

Ear to the Ground: $26 Billion for States and Schools

Cartoons: Deficit Dope

Reports: The Politics of Stupidity Strike Again

Ear to the Ground: Pressure Is On to Tighten the Pentagon’s Waist

Reports: Deficit Doves

Ear to the Ground: Technical Difficulties Bring Luck to Calif. Workers

Reports: The Thing That Ate the WIC Budget

Reports: Show Us the Money

Reports: After the Recession, Belt-Tightening

Reports: After 41 Years, a Belated Victory for Butter

Ear to the Ground: Budget Director Calls It Quits

Ear to the Ground: The Pentagon’s Spare Parts Problem

Reports: What Are They Smoking in California?

Reports: Rebuilding an American Legacy

Ear to the Ground: Greek Financial Crisis Hits Poor

Cartoons: A-B-C ... PTSD

A/V Booth: Limbaugh Says $250,000 Isn’t Wealthy

Ear to the Ground: Obama Announces $3.8 Trillion Budget for 2011

Reports: Hope in the Deep Freeze

Ear to the Ground: Obama to Propose Spending Freeze

Ear to the Ground: And Now, the California Budget Cuts

Ear to the Ground: Liberal Linguist Wants to Save California

Reports: Decades From Hell: One Down, One to Go

Reports: In Need of a Watchdog on Health Spending

Reports: Kucinich on Obama’s Escalation: Great Speech, Bad Policy

Truthdig Podcast: Kucinich on Obama’s Escalation: Great Speech, Bad Policy

Reports: Obama’s Third Way in Afghanistan

Reports: Where Are the Real Deficit Hawks?

Ear to the Ground: Obama Trims (Some) Fat with Weapons Bill

Ear to the Ground: A Cruel and Unusual Waste of Money

Ear to the Ground: Federal Deficit Hits Record $1.42 trillion

Ear to the Ground: House Votes to Pay Nation’s Bills, Tosses In a Bit for Itself

Reports: Homeland Security Spending Marked by Waste, Shoddy Oversight

Cartoons: State Budget Math

Reports: Read My Lips: We Need to Raise Taxes

Ear to the Ground: Come Rain, Sleet or E-Mail

Ear to the Ground: White House: No Tax Hikes for Middle Class

Reports: Blue Dogs: The Special Interest Pets

Ear to the Ground: California Cuts Budget Deal

A/V Booth: ‘Left, Right & Center’: Vetting Sotomayor, Sizing Up the GOP

Ear to the Ground: California Sees Red

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Budget Deficit Climbs to Over $1 Trillion

Ear to the Ground: Senate Reworks Health Care Proposal

Ear to the Ground: Schwarzenegger Won’t Budge as California Nears Collapse

Ear to the Ground: California Attacks Budget Crisis With Make-Believe

Arts and Culture: A Strapped L.A. Won’t Pay for Laker Parade

Ear to the Ground: Democrats Aren’t Buying What Schwarzenegger’s Cutting

Reports: California’s Silent Big Spenders

Reports: Stuff the Bankers, Starve the Kids

A/V Booth: Bill Maher’s California Elegy

A/V Booth: ‘Left, Right & Center’: Is Torture a Partisan Issue?

A/V Booth: ‘Left, Right & Center’: Obama’s Big G-20 Debut, Bigger Budget

Ear to the Ground: Senate Gives Budget Plan the Go-Ahead

Ear to the Ground: House Passes Mega-Budget ’09

Reports: Daring to Utter the T Word

Reports: The Right’s Twisted Blame Game

Reports: Inside Bush’s War on Birth Control

Reports: Obama’s Fight Against the Politics of Evasion

Ear to the Ground: Budget Deficit Hits $1.8 Trilly

Reports: Our Justified Populist Rage

Reports: From Frozen Minds, a ‘Spending Freeze’

Reports: Socialism Without a Soul

Cartoons: Practice Course

Reports: If Only Obama Were as Radical as They Say

Reports: The Rebirth of Education

Reports: America’s New Trajectory

Reports: Redistributionist, and That’s Just Fine

A/V Booth: Obama Pushes His Budget Plan

A/V Booth: ‘Left, Right & Center’: Obama’s Budget, Jindal’s Debut

Reports: Government’s Long Night May Be Ending

Reports: Bill Redux?

Reports: At Last, Accepting Some Clues From Across the Pond

Reports: The President’s Address to Congress

Ear to the Ground: Schwarzenegger Thought About Ditching the GOP

Ear to the Ground: Obama Takes Another Crack at Commerce

Reports: ‘Entitlements’ Take a Bum Rap

Ear to the Ground: Obama Gets Aggressive on Cutting the Deficit

Reports: Good Money After Bad

Ear to the Ground: California Plans to Fire 20,000 Workers

Reports: Bad News From America’s Top Spy

Reports: A Hand on History

Ear to the Ground: Pols Sink or Swim With the Stimulus

Reports: A Team of Zombies

Ear to the Ground: Pentagon Propaganda Is Booming

Reports: Howard Dean Should Have Been Obama’s Pick All Along

Reports: Stimulus Skeptics Wrong (Again)

Ear to the Ground: And Now for the Stimulus Tug of War

Reports: Economic Policy That Might Actually Work? Who Knew?

Ear to the Ground: Cabinet Confirmations: 7 and Counting

Reports: The Shame Beneath Inaugural Hoopla

Reports: So, Just Who Is the Guy Taking the Oath?

Reports: The Party of No Ideas

Reports: Learning From Clinton’s Mistakes

Reports: The Politician in Chief Works for a Stimulus

Reports: Now Is No Time for Phony Thrift

Ear to the Ground: Obama Ponders the Third Rail

Cartoons: California Budget Begging

Reports: FDR Prolonged the Depression? Really?

Reports: Why I Am a Socialist

Reports: Economic Death and Millionaire Taxes

Reports: Don’t Be Fooled by Bush’s Farewell Tour

A/V Booth: Schwarzenegger Wants It All

Ear to the Ground: N.Y. Governor Gets Tough on Soft Drinks

Reports: Rep. Dennis Kucinich on His Battle With the Banks

Reports: Redrawing the Political Map

Arts and Culture: NPR Catches Layoff Fever

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