by Leo Gerard | Jul 5, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016, Jobs and Growth, Trade
Donald Trump stomped into my backyard just days before July 4 and claimed to be a steelworker. That’s right. The billionaire, whose manicured little hands routinely slip into lambskin golf gloves but never once donned heavy-duty work mitts, actually claimed to...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 30, 2016 | Blog, Economy, Jobs and Growth
"You never let a serious crisis go to waste," Rahm Emanuel infamously said when he was President Obama's White House chief of staff. So it is with the legislation that President Obama signs into law Thursday that offers Puerto Rico a process for managing its crushing...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 28, 2016 | Jobs and Growth
One of the unheralded victories in the Democratic Party platform victories puts the party officially on the side of workers in a big, concrete way. The platform draft that is now on its way to the full platform committee, which votes on it at a meeting in Orlando,...
by Leo Gerard | Jun 28, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, Jobs and Growth, This Is The GOP
After mouthing off in ways that had the effect of repeatedly shooting himself in the foot, Donald Trump tried to recover last week by puffing himself up as the jobs candidate. “When I see the crumbling roads and bridges, or the dilapidated airports, or the factories...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 27, 2016 | Jobs and Growth
While national pizza chains like Domino's and Papa John's have been targeted by Fight for 15 protests around the country because of their low wages and allegations of wage theft, a Washington, D.C.-based pizza entrepreneur has made his chain a champion of the...
by Leo Gerard | Jun 21, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016, Jobs and Growth
Using rape-and-pillage corporate practices favored by Wall Street, Donald Trump made himself billions while swindling and bankrupting untold numbers of hourly workers and small businesses. In recounting his "deal-making" experience, Trump says the important thing is...