by Dave Johnson | Feb 19, 2014 | Blog
The public gets it that one-sided trade agreements are shipping jobs out of the country – and they want our government to do something about it. A new Gallup poll shows that jobs and unemployment has risen to the No. 1 spot on the country's "most important problem"...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 17, 2014 | Blog
Today is the fifth anniversary of the day President Obama signing the "stimulus," the American Recovery Act. In December I published this post," Did The Stimulus Work? See For Yourself." On this anniversary occasion, we republish it, in full: Did the "stimulus" work?...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 14, 2014 | Trans-Pacific Partnership
There are signs that the Obama administration is backing off from its push to get fast track trade promotion authority through Congress. First it was 151 members of Congress signing a letter opposing fast track. Then, in the State of the Union address, President Obama...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 14, 2014 | Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
The big corporations and the Obama administration are trying to push through a giant new trade treaty that gives corporations even more power, and which will send even more jobs, factories, industries and money out of the country. This is the Trans-Pacific Partnership...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 12, 2014 | Minimum Wage
President Obama is signing an executive order today raising the minimum wage for federal contractors from $7.25 to $10.10 an hour. The order will also raise the "tipped" minimum wage for these contractors to $4.90 from $2.13 an hour. These minimums will increase with...
