New Fed Study Looks Into Use Of Force Oversight At ICE, DHS
What polices – if any – provide an oversight into the use of force on American citizens?
Wisconsin Power Grab
By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 3rd, 2011One thing is clear about Wisconsin’s budget impasse: Gov. Scott Walker’s attempt to deny the natural rights of assembly and speech to public-sector workers–rights…
Wisconsin Shock Doctrine
By Cliff Montgomery – Feb. 25th, 2011Is Wisconsin’s governor, Scott Walker, employing a strong dose of “shock and awe” on America’s workers? It certainly seems so to Naomi Klein, journalist…
Wisconsin Governor
By Cliff Montgomery – Feb. 20th, 2011Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin plans to strip public workers of their Natural Right to assemble–specifically, their right to collectively ask for anything but…
Working America
By Cliff Montgomery – Feb. 16th, 2011Since 1988, the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) has published The State of Working America, an annual comprehensive economic study which has greatly served policy-makers,…
Top Income Earners Gain As You Lose
By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 31st, 2011Conservative economic policy over the last 35 years has produced the greatest economic inequality inAmerica since the dawn of the Great Depression, according to…
Social Security Quite Sound
By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 27th, 2011It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his job depends on not understanding it. – Upton Sinclair In August 2010,…
Economic Outlook Poor
By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 24th, 2011The lack of a second economic stimulus for the U.S.A. and other developed countries will “provide a drag on the global recovery and pose…
Harsh Debate Not The Problem
By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 11th, 2011Since the tragic shootings in Arizona, well-intentioned people from across the political spectrum have called for a strong change in the tone of social…
Stimulus Was Starting To Work
By Cliff Montgomery – Dec. 7th, 2010″During the third quarter of 2010, recipients reported, ARRA [the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act] funded more than 670,000 Full-Time-Equivalent jobs,” stated a recent…
Mountaintop Mining Oversight
By Cliff Montgomery – Nov. 22nd, 2010A study on federal oversight of surface coal mining in Appalachia was released last month by the Government Accountability Office (GAO). It’s important, as…
Who Finances Us Debt
By Cliff Montgomery – Nov. 15th, 2010The current global monetary system “allows the US to run high deficits and it prolongs a situation in whichcapital flows ‘uphill’…from poor countries to…
Veterans Affairs Insurance
By Cliff Montgomery – Nov. 10th, 2010On the eve of Veterans’ Day, the American Spark feels it’s only right to discuss just how well our nation treats our heroes’ families…
Republicans Will Solve Nothing
By Cliff Montgomery – Nov. 5th, 2010″If the news outlets were actually reporting, they would tell us the honest and awful truth,” writes Elizabeth Wurtzel today in The Guardian. The…
Wall Street Foreclosures
By Cliff Montgomery – Nov. 1st, 2010″Wall Street titans have a new sweet spot–as surrogate taxcollectors,” states the lead-in for a fascinating video from TheHuffington Post Investigative Fund.”[Wall Street sees]…
Wealthiest Gain As We Lose
By Cliff Montgomery – Oct. 26th, 2010The wealthiest in the United States have seen a five-fold increase in their average incomes from 2008, even asthe Great Recession continues to destroy…
Broadband Access For Citizens
By Cliff Montgomery – Oct. 18th, 2010The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) in September released a study on the importance ofproviding citizens with a broadband Internet service.As the GAO report…
Obama Wont Sign Foreclosure Bill
By Cliff Montgomery – Oct. 11th, 2010There has been a growing tide of righteous anger in America over the presumed legitimacy of this country’sforeclosure proceedings.A wave of foreclosures helped create…
Poverty In America
By Cliff Montgomery – Oct. 5th, 2010The ‘Out of Poverty Caucus’ is a newly formed Congressional organization dedicated “to raising awarenessabout the millions of Americans who live without adequate food,…
Nobody Is Most Popular Candidate
By Cliff Montgomery – Sept. 26th 2010Want to fill the voting booths this November with enthusiastic voters hungry for real change? A true alternativeto America’s two useless political parties should…
Half Of Fed Debt Created In Bush Years
By Cliff Montgomery – Sept. 16th, 2010Nearly half of America’s federal debt was accumulated from 2002 to 2008–years in which George W. Bushwas president, reveals a U.S. government study released…
Gao Public Protest Data
By Cliff Montgomery – Sept. 1st, 2010The federal bureau which approves Big Oil’s purchases of resources on public land keeps a rather poor recordof citizen protests, according to a study…
Gaming The Banking System
By Cliff Montgomery – Aug. 26th, 2010A recent study by a true grassroots network reveals how the big banks gamed America’s economic system atyour expense–and it’s expressed in clear, easy-to-understand…
Wall Street Rigging Oversight
By Cliff Montgomery – Aug. 17th, 2010Though federal officials recently passed sweeping financial oversightlegislation, many of the day-to-day rules that will give that law realteeth will be written by regulators…