by Dave Johnson | Feb 12, 2014 | Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
Some advocates of the upcoming Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) claim that including trade adjustment assistance (TAA) for displaced workers will make things OK for people who lose their jobs and the communities where they live. The record of "NAFTA-style" trade...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 11, 2014 | Conservatism, Economy, Populist Majority
With Republicans unable to agree on a hostage strategy, Speaker John Boehner will hold an open vote on a "clean" debt-ceiling increase. This means that Democrats and a few moderately sane Republicans will formalize what everyone has known all along: It is illegitimate...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 9, 2014 | Blog
A crowd declared by organizers to exceed 80,000 showed up to march to protest Republican policies in Raleigh, N.C. Saturday. But you wouldn't know it if you live outside the area. Saturday's big march, organized by the North Carolina NAACP along with more than 160...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 7, 2014 | Blog
Today's jobs report has a bit of sort-of good news for manufacturing employment: 21,000 new jobs! At that rate President Obama ... won't ... make it to his goal of 1 million new manufacturing jobs in his second term. (Note: Passing Fast Track so the big corporations...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 6, 2014 | Blog
The U.S. Census Bureau’s Bureau of Economic Analysis released trade deficit figures for December, which also means we can add up the totals for 2013. Our "oil boom" lowered the total, but goods and services got worse, with our China problem setting another record. The...
