by Dave Johnson | Dec 12, 2014 | Blog, Financial Reform
The "Citibank budget" has not passed the Senate. There is time to fight this giveaway to Wall Street. Call your senators today and tell them take the Citibank bailout part out or block the budget. Tell them to let Wall Street know that their days of controlling our...
by Dave Johnson | Dec 11, 2014 | Blog, Trade
China's currency manipulation and other illegal practices "suck wages out of our economy," Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio) said during a press call Thursday, citing the figure of a direct loss of $37 billion in reduced wages in 2011 alone. It "becomes difficult to do economic...
by Dave Johnson | Dec 10, 2014 | Blog
Are we a nation of laws or not? No one is held accountable for invading Iraq, bank fraud, shooting unarmed citizens or even torture. It's time to restore the rule of law. Everyone please, please watch this 4-minute segment from All In with Chris Hayes: Are really we a...
by Dave Johnson | Dec 10, 2014 | Blog, Trade
On a media call today, several immigrant rights leaders talked about the relationship between "NAFTA-CAFTA-Style" trade deals and the number of people forced to immigrate north to the U.S. They worry that the massive Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) will move jobs from...
by Dave Johnson | Dec 8, 2014 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
Shouldn't it be a trade violation to threaten to move someone's job to another country? Shouldn't we negotiate trade agreements that increase people's wages on both sides of a trade border? These are the kinds of agreements we would make if We the People were...
