Why Obama Deserves a Second Term

The Rev. Madison Shockley / Truthdig Oct 15, 2012 My family survived the Great Recession because of the policies of the Obama administration I suspect we were not alone in benefiting from one or another of the various relief programs I suspect we were not alone in benefiting from the relief programs. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Update: 25 People at the Heart of the Meltdown

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Aug 7, 2012 At the height of the financial crisis, The Guardian identified 25 bankers, economists, politicians and financial officials who helped bring about the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. What are they up to now? Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Robert Scheer Wins Prestigious Sigma Delta Chi Award

Staff / Truthdig Jul 20, 2012 Truthdig's editor-in-chief has taken top honors in the Online Column Writing (Independent) category. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Who’s Not Putting Americans Back to Work

Bill Boyarsky / Truthdig Jun 15, 2012 With the encouragement of Mitt Romney, House Republicans are doing everything they can to keep Americans from getting work, just to defeat President Obama.House Republicans are doing everything they can to keep Americans from getting work, just to defeat President Obama. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Preying on the Poor

By Barbara Ehrenreich, TomDispatch May 17, 2012 The poor provide a juicy target for anyone depraved enough to make a business of stealing from them. The trick is to rob them in ways that are systematic, impersonal and almost impossible to trace to individual perpetrators. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Plutonomy and the Precariat: On the History of the U.S. Economy in Decline

Staff / Truthdig May 8, 2012 After the first few years of the Great Depression there was a sense that “we’re gonna get out of it." It's quite different now. For many people in the United States, there’s a pervasive sense of hopelessness, sometimes despair. I think it’s quite new in American history. And it has an objective basis. Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )

Truthdiggers of the Week: Indiana University Poverty Researchers

Staff / Truthdig Jan 13, 2012 Here's a sobering dose of reality: Poverty in America has risen to the 27 percent mark in the last half-decade and, perhaps worse, the prospects for our nation's poorest won't necessarily get better as the economy picks up. It's not news many want to hear, but we're glad a group of researchers at Indiana University were gutsy enough to release it. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Wall Street’s Not-So-Little Secret

Staff / Truthdig Aug 28, 2011 In 2008, the 10 biggest US banks and brokerage firms took $829 billion in emergency loans from the U Treasury and the Federal Reserve Until now, who got what had been a secret (more). Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Steve Fraser on the Crisis of Capitalism

BLANK Nov 6, 2009 Does the prospect of deepening economic meltdown and political disarray raise the specter of a social upheaval and, perhaps, the collapse of capitalism, the likes of which we haven't seen since the Great Depression?Does the prospect of deepening economic meltdown and political disarray raise the specter of a social upheaval and, perhaps, the fall of capitalism? Dig deeper ( 20 Min. Read )