We like to think that a free market’s greatest strength is its self-corrective nature. Nina Easton Read Quote
In 1992, Bill Clinton ran on a platform of ‘ending welfare as we know it.’ His political worldview, drawn from like-minded thinkers at the Democratic Leadership Council, was based in private sector growth and personal responsibility. Nina Easton Read Quote
Jobless workers, especially those out of work for months and years, don’t have the skills to multitask in a fast-paced economy where medical workers need to know electronic record-keeping, machinists need computer skills, and marketing managers can no longer delegate software duties. Nina Easton Read Quote
Economically, long-term joblessness means fewer dollars for consumption. For deficit control, it means fewer taxpayers contributing to government revenues and tens of billions more spent on unemployment insurance. Nina Easton Read Quote
The longer people are unemployed, the less employable they become. Skills become rusty; managers look more suspiciously at someone who has been out of work for years than a candidate already employed. Nina Easton Read Quote
In the fall of 1996, I sat inside weekly strategy meetings of conservative activists as part of research for my book, ‘Gang of Five,’ chronicling the rise of the baby-boomer Right. Nina Easton Read Quote
The Citizens United ruling did not invent special-interest spending; it enables corporations and unions to advocate directly on behalf of a candidate rather than running more subtle ‘issue ads.’ Nina Easton Read Quote
Every journalist loves a peaceful protest -whether it makes news, shakes up a political season, or holds out the possibility of altering history. Nina Easton Read Quote
Successful candidates follow a simple fundamental rule: Define yourself before your opponent can define you. Nina Easton Read Quote
A desire to rescue secular America from fallen grace has driven conservative evangelicals at least since the 1970s, when Jerry Falwell formed the Moral Majority as a vehicle for conservative Christians to muscle their way into national politics. Nina Easton Read Quote
