by Dave Johnson | Apr 14, 2014 | Blog
Last week House Republicans passed the "Ryan budget." It won't become law because it won't get through the Senate and President Obama would veto it. But because it's the budget statement of the Republican Party going into the fall elections, it shows voters who the...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 11, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
Thursday's unemployment applications number hit a 7-year low of (seasonally adjusted) 300,000, a drop of 32,000. We have restored the number of jobs lost in the Great Recession. This is indeed good news. But even so, things are not rosy in the unemployment numbers –...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 10, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
You might have been hearing about "wage theft." The wage theft problem is about people showing up for work but not getting paid for the time they put in. It's a common problem and it is one of the ways people are being ripped off by a rigged system. How common is this...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 8, 2014 | Better Off Budget, Blog
Tell your member of Congress (MOC) to vote for the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) "Better Off Budget' (BOB). Click to call. This week the House of Representatives is scheduled to vote on the "Ryan"/Republican corporate/conservative budget and the CPC "Better...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 7, 2014 | Blog, Conservatism
It has become a "truth" on the right that the IRS "targets" conservative "political" groups. Here is what is going on. Sea Of Smear Ads From Anonymous Donors Who is providing the sea of anonymous money behind the nasty smear-campaign ads in local, state and national...
