by Dave Johnson | May 27, 2016 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
[fve]https://youtu.be/q6qvdDacozM[/fve] NOTE: Shortly after this article was posted, news broke of a settlement in the strike between Verizon and workers represented by the Communications Workers of America and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers....
by Dave Johnson | May 24, 2016 | Blog, Financial Reform
[fve]https://youtu.be/VEZeUTTJgCI[/fve]Rep. Nydia Velázquez (D-N.Y.) explains how Wall Street financial interests contributed to the economic crisis in Puerto Rico at the "Take On Wall Street" campaign event Tuesday at the U.S. Capitol. In 2008 Wall Street got...
by Dave Johnson | May 24, 2016 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
More than 1,500 environmental, labor, faith, consumer, LGBT, health, peace, business, social justice and other public interest organizations representing trade and democracy "stakeholders" sent a joint letter to Congress urging them to reject the Trans-Pacific...
by Dave Johnson | May 23, 2016 | Blog, Trans-Pacific Partnership
President Obama is in Vietnam promoting the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Vietnam? Really? A year ago the post "Obama To Visit Nike To Promote the TPP. Wait, NIKE? Really?," noted how Nike pioneered moving jobs out of the country to take advantage of low wages and...
by Dave Johnson | May 20, 2016 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
Here we are in "Infrastructure Week" and here we are with a new argument for a massive infrastructure investment project – worldwide. Last week Peter Coy wrote at Bloomberg, in "How to Pull the World Economy Out of Its Rut," about economist Larry Summers' argument...
