Authors:Phillip Longman, Ray Boshara,
Publisher: Polipoint Press
Keywords: prosperity, broad, blueprint, era, progressive
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2009-04-02
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 098157694X
ISBN-13: 9780981576947

Progressives 100 years ago were deeply concerned about vast income inequalities, concentrated corporate power, a weak labor movement, high immigration rates, threats to small-scale producers and retailers, middle-class debt levels, environmental degradation and unsafe food, terrorism, religious fundamentalism, and the deteriorating quality of family life. Sound familiar? The Progressive Era changed America profoundly, and this book argues that modern-day progressives must return to their roots by protecting families (rather than individuals) from the social and environmental ravages of global

Authors:Angie Crouse, Center for Responsive Politics,
Publisher: Polipoint Press
Keywords: politics, practices, rated, companies, pages, directory, blue, amp
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2009-11-01
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0981709141
ISBN-13: 9780981709147

By summarizing the political contributions and business practices of hundreds of corporations, this handy directory helps you support companies that share your political values. Follow your money; you might be surprised. The Blue Pages includes valuable information on political contributions to each major party, employee benefits and labor practices, lawsuits and investigations, and community and charitable programs. As this information starts to affect these companies at the cash register, they may be less inclined to support positions that conflict with their customers’ values. T

Author: Dean Baker
Publisher: Polipoint Press
Keywords: economy, bubble, rise, blunder, plunder
Number of Pages: 170
Published: 2009-01-01
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0981576990
ISBN-13: 9780981576992

For the second time this decade, the US economy is sinking into a recession due to the collapse of a financial bubble. The most recent calamity is likely to produce a downturn deeper and longer than the stock market crash of 2001. Dean Baker argues not only that competent economists should have recognized the developing housing bubble, but also that policy makers and the media cheerfully neglected those economists who did predict danger. Baker doesnt engage in 20-20 hindsight, but documents the fundamental policy changes since 1980 that destabilized the economy and eroded the broad prosperity

Author: Dean Baker
Publisher: Polipoint Press
Keywords: economy, bubble, recovering, profits, false
Number of Pages: 174
Published: 2010-01-15
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0982417128
ISBN-13: 9780982417126

Building on the author’s expertise, False Profits recounts the causes of the economic meltdown, dissects the government’s inadequate responses to it, and offers a thoughtful progressive program for rebuilding the economy and reforming the financial system.

Author: John Sperling
Publisher: PoliPoint Press
Keywords: america, metro, retro, divide
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2004-08
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0976062100
ISBN-13: 9780976062103

This book reframes the "red state"/"blue state" debate as "retro America" — the South, the Plains states, the Mountain West, and Appalachia — vs. "metro America," composed of the populous states on both coasts and the Great Lakes states. The authors — three of them economists — detail how the Republicans pander to the fears of retro America’s fundamentalist Christians while frantically outsourcing jobs, shredding the social safety net, and subsizing corporate interests at the expense of the lives of average citizens. The book then shows Democrats how to take back the country by focu

Author: Jeff Cohen
Publisher: Polipoint Press
Keywords: corporate, media, misadventures, confidential, news, cable
Number of Pages: 221
Published: 2006-10-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 097606216X
ISBN-13: 9780976062165

Producer, pundit, and media critic Jeff Cohen offers a fast-paced romp through the three major cable news channels--Fox, CNN, and MSNBC--and delivers a serious message about their failure to cover the most urgent issues of the day.

Author: Yvonne Latty
Publisher: Polipoint Press
Keywords: loss, fight, alive, duty, speak, iraq, war, veterans, conflict
Number of Pages: 189
Published: 2006-03-31
List price: $24.00
ISBN-10: 0976062143
ISBN-13: 9780976062141

In Conflict takes a rare look at the Iraqi War through the words of those who have fought it. The book features more than two dozen veterans from all military branches, from fighter pilots, nurses, medics, and foot soldiers to prison guards, POWs, and reservists, each accompanied by a compelling photograph. Together they comprise a group portrait of American men and women located all over the country and from all age, race, and socioeconomic groups — men and women whose voices, surprisingly, are rarely heard in the din of discussion on this endlessly analyzed subject. They speak from veteran