by Dave Johnson | Apr 19, 2012 | Blog, Making it in America
When President Nixon went to China in 1972, manufacturing was 22 percent of the nation's economy. It was still 20 percent of the nation's economy eight years later when China was granted most-favored-nation trading status. We're all too familiar with how the story of...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 19, 2012 | Blog, Economy
Congressman Raul Grijalva has introduced The Border Infrastructure and Jobs Act of 2011. (Fronteriza Y Trabajos 2011.) According to the Nogales International, this is a bill to "strengthen cross-border trade; modernize and expand border transportation; adequately...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 19, 2012 | Blog
Good Lord, what is the matter with people? There are millions of jobs that need doing, and millions of unemployed. How hard is it to figure out what to do? Next up before the Senate is an infrastructure bill. It's simple, $60 billion to repair aging infrastructure....
by Farbod Kadkhoda | Apr 19, 2012 | Blog, Economy
Just as public works projects launched by FDR put millions of unemployed people to work during the Great Depression, the Obama administration has pushed to invest billions in public works projects to create jobs for millions of today’s unemployed. But many of the...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Apr 19, 2012 | Blog
The House of Representatives this afternoon scheduled a vote on a three-month, stopgap transportation funding bill, as conservatives struggle to decide what sort of long-term transportation plan it is willing to put on the House floor for a vote. The alternative that...
