“I’ve been ungodly blessed, you know, I just happened to be born at the right time in the right place. I tell people if I’d been born a few thousand years ago I would have been some animal’s lunch, because I can’t run very fast or jump very high. Or if I’d been born in […]
The short answer is “no” - and Media Matters, Matthew Yglesias and others have properly taken news anchor Charles Gibson to task for suggesting that $200,000 is a “middle-class” income. But even if Gibson is wrong about “two professors” at St. Anselm College making that amount, or was wrong because, as Media Matters points […]
Pay me more and I’ll let you know.
Money and happiness may not have a super-strong relationship - but it’s enough to be bad news for the Bush economy, where Americans have been earning less over the years. Perhaps depressed wages have contributed to depressing people with an overwhelming majority of Americans believing […]
Really sad news. I had hoped to blog about this proposal to make Illinois income tax more progressive - and I regret I didn’t do it sooner. People making over $250,000 a year in income can afford a higher tax than those making $25,000 - and it’s no secret that in areas like […]
Republicans have a real problem. The GOP has ruled the United States for the last seven years with President Bush, a Republican majority congress (or a minority practicing unprecedented legislative obstructionism (and here)) and a majority [in the] Supreme Court (not to mention lower courts). But despite Republicans holding the reins of power […]
Jacky Grimshaw, VP for Policy, Transportation and Community Development at Center for Neighborhood Technology, wrote an important Letter to the Editor in Tuesday’s Chicago Tribune:
“With a reported median selling price of $227,000, homebuyers feel they can get the most home for their money in Kendall County (”Kendall nation’s fastest-growing county; Locals proud despite area’s growing […]
[Hat tip to Matt Yglesias]
I haven’t read Charles Karelis’ recent book (nor had I heard of him for that matter) but what struck me about his argument that poverty traps people because they have too many “problems to be alleviated” was that it sounds reasonable, compelling and not that surprising. The first thing I […]
From State Representative Paul Froehlich (all links are mine):
Dear Mr. Byrne:
After reading your March 31st column in the Tribune, I looked up what my colleagues Sen. Murphy and Rep. Bassi introduced to facilitate secession. It’s SB2591 and HB6307. What’s significant here is that these are normal bills rather than proposed constitutional amendments. […]
In 2002, Senate candidate Jim Oberweis told the Daily Herald that his investment experience led him to support investing up to half of workers’ Social Security taxes in the market. Oberweis said he supported this because of “the lesson of Enron,” the energy company that defrauded investors and employees and ended up bankrupt, was […]
This Naperville Sun article is an interesting story about how the all-Republican DuPage County Board works - or doesn’t. In a nutshell, there’s a roughly $800,000 to $950,000 contract for providing meals to the DuPage County Jail. Aramark, a national company that has provided food to the jail for 21 years, recently submitted […]
