Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker says his controversial budget repair bill protected the state’s middle class by avoiding layoffs and government expansion that average Wisconsinites would have ended up paying for.
It’s a rarity to find agreement on both sides of the national political aisle these days, but it seems Atlanta businessman Herman Cain‘s ’9-9-9′ tax plan is a uniting force.
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The campaign for U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann issued a press release late Tuesday that More…
When President Barack Obama addresses the nation and a joint session of Congress to unveil steps for job creation and the economy, there’s only one thing he needs to remember: go big. That’s the advice of U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin and former U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich.
Iowa Democratic Congressman Bruce Braley Wednesday admonished his Republican congressional colleagues’ support of the payroll tax increase, which Braley says will be a gut-punch to low-income and middle class families.
More political ads will likely soon fly across the Iowa airwaves, and they won’t be the product of the 2012 campaigns.
Fresh from his victory in Nevada and operating on little sleep, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid made it clear on a conference call this afternoon that Democrats are willing to compromise with their Republican colleagues — and expect the same attitude from the GOP.
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Today, President Barack Obama defended his economic policies in a rangy, hour-long, town hall–type interview organized and televised by CNBC.
Today, the Democrats on the Joint Economic Committee are out with a politically charged, compellingly presented report on the relationship between income inequality and the recession.
Americans want to extend the Bush tax cuts for middle-class Americans and to let them expire for the wealthiest Americans, just as the Obama White House proposes, a new Pew poll shows.
Appearing on Meet the Press this weekend, Alan Greenspan, the former head of the Federal Reserve, sounded an awful lot like John Edwards for a central banker with a strong libertarian streak:
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