Progressive Opinion

huffingtonpost.com — In case you didn't know, the loss of 20,000 American jobs in April is actually good news. You see, economists had predicted 73,000 jobs would be lost last month, so thank God we dodged that bullet, right?!

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csmonitor.com — With prices at $120 a barrel, Americans are facing an oil adjustment.

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thenation.com — The other day Ben Bernanke came as close as a chairman of the Federal Reserve will come to a public freakout. Call it a subdued, bankerly freakout. What's got Bernanke scared is that "about one quarter of subprime adjustable-rate mortgages are currently 90 days or more delinquent or in foreclosure." That, and the rise in delinquency rates in the prime and near-prime mortgage markets. Oh, and the foreclosure rate that rose 53 percent last year and looks likely rise even higher this year.

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thenation.com — Call it Juan Crow: the matrix of laws, social customs, economic institutions and symbolic systems enabling the physical and psychic isolation needed to control and exploit undocumented immigrants. The surge in Latino migration is moving many of the institutions and actors responsible for enforcing Jim Crow to resurrect and reconfigure themselves in line with new demographics.

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inthesetimes.com — Despite some real working-class conservatism, there's strong evidence that a deep reservoir of support exists among working-class voters for progressive economic policy ' if Democrats can tap it.

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huffingtonpost.com — They wanted to drown government in a bathtub. They did and wound up drowning their own party instead. It turns out the American people want a government. They think it serves a purpose.

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truthout.org — It's understandable that our elected leaders would want to do something about the meteoric rise of gasoline, diesel and heating oil prices that are now bankrupting independent truckers and forcing many in colder states to choose between staying warm and driving to work. Yet, their efforts are based on a profound misperception of why oil prices are rising.

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tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com — If the main beneficiaries of bailout programs are the banks, then we are using taxpayer dollars to shift income upward. We are giving money to to the banks' shareholders and their managers, some of the most highly compensated people in the country.

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