by Dave Johnson | Mar 6, 2014 | Trade
Our enormous, humongous trade deficit hurts our economy; our budget deficit right now doesn’t. What would the result be if people were more worried about the trade deficit than the budget deficit? Fixing the trade deficit would mean more jobs, higher wages and a much,...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 5, 2014 | Economy, The 2015 Budget
The President's 2015 budget proposal "pivots" away from the 2010 "pivot" to austerity, pushes modestly for jobs and prioritizes infrastructure repair. Republicans will obstruct this – just like they have obstructed every jobs plan since the stimulus. But the public...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 4, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
There have been strikes today in 190 cities with fast-food and other low-wage workers demanding $15 an hour and the right to unionize. At the same time, low-wage federal contract workers are demanding presidential action to win $15 and a union. It's not just fast-food...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 3, 2014 | Trade
Today more than 40 organizations called on the U.S. Trade Representative to start an open, transparent, public consultation process allowing them to provide input on our country's trade-agreement negotiating process and the resulting trade deals. In particular these...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 27, 2014 | Jobs and Growth
You may have heard about all the giant multinational corporations that have moved jobs, factories and profits out of the country in order to avoid paying the taxes they owe. You may have heard that we haven't been maintaining (never mind modernizing) our...
