By Julianne Malveaux – Good news – the unemployment rate is dropping, last month from 9 percent to 8.9 percent a scant drop. Better news – the private sector is finally generating jobs, 192,000 to be exact, last month. Best news – there is optimism about economic recovery and spin doctors are saying that we […]
“We the People” Does not mean “We the People”
By Lucius Gantt – Conservative news pundits and reactionary Tea Party Republicans are quick to say that voting results in the 2010 elections were a mandate and accordingly the people have spoken. Well, “the people” are not just the ten, twenty or thirty percent of registered voters that went to the polls to cast votes […]