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Walmart To Hire Vets – But At What Wage?
Walmart has announced an initiative to buy more American-made goods and hire more than 100,000 veterans during the next five years. This is great. Will they pay the veterans a living wage? Or will they hand them instructions on how to apply for food stamps? Walmart...
Abolish The Debt Ceiling
The debt-ceiling law is a mistake. All lifting the debt ceiling does is authorize Congress to borrow the money that is needed to pay the bills that Congress has already mandated be paid. Tomorrow representatives Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Hank Johnson (D-GA), Jim Moran...
Call It Corruption Not Ideology
The President of the United States held a press conference with the DC elite press corps. They had the opportunity to ask the President what our government is doing about the nation's most serious problems. They didn't.
Why Not Ask Teachers How They Would Improve Our Schools?
We were sitting in a Starbucks in Arlington, Va. It was our first meeting. Previously, Iowa governor Tom Vilsack and I had talked by phone and exchanged blog posts on education. His campaign staff had reached out to a number of educational bloggers, as he was...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: Trade That Hurts United Steelworkers' Leo Gerard: "'Uncertainty' is the pitchfork that corporations now effectively wield to prod politicians into action. It’s a threat, as in, if Congress doesn’t do this or that, such as avoid the fiscal cliff or...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: Trade That Hurts United Steelworkers' Leo Gerard: "'Uncertainty' is the pitchfork that corporations now effectively wield to prod politicians into action. It’s a threat, as in, if Congress doesn’t do this or that, such as avoid the fiscal cliff or...
Progressive Breakfast
Trade that Hurts
“Uncertainty” is the pitchfork that corporations now effectively wield to prod politicians into action. It’s a threat, as in, if Congress doesn’t do this or that, such as avoid the fiscal cliff or raise the debt ceiling, then corporations will suffer the unbearable...
"Workers and trade unions are a cornerstone of any democracy" -- Leo Gerard
Sunday I interviewed Leo Gerard, International President of the United Steelworkers, a union with 1.3 million members. Now that we know Labor Secretary Hilda Solis is leaving the administration and a new Labor Secretary will be appointed and confirmed, I asked him about the policies that a new Secretary of Labor should pursue.
The Chess Master Behind That AIG Lawsuit Story [video]
People were outraged that AIG's board of directors considered suing its own rescuers last week. As a former AIG employee, I had a slightly different take on that story: The outrage was warranted (and Warren-ted), but there was somebody behind the scenes pulling the...
