by Dave Johnson | Dec 30, 2013 | Making it in America, Populist Majority
Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch has issued a new report, NAFTA at 20: One Million U.S. Jobs Lost, Mass Displacement and Instability in Mexico, Record Income Inequality, Scores of Corporate Attacks on Environmental and Health Laws. The report compares the promises...
by Dave Johnson | Dec 23, 2013 | Unemployment Benefits
Republicans have so far blocked extending unemployment assistance for the long-term unemployed (over 26 weeks, even less in several states) and it ends on December 28. But there may be some hope. Polls show the Americans overwhelmingly support extending this...
by Dave Johnson | Dec 20, 2013 | Uncategorized
At the beginning of November, the poor went over the "Hunger Cliff" as Food Stamps were cut. Now long-term unemployment assistance will run out at the end of December. Regular people think the government has given up on them. They have been hit by one blow after...
by Dave Johnson | Dec 19, 2013 | Health
You have probably heard the right's (well-funded) messaging that people have "lost" their health insurance because of Obamacare. The thing is, people who had plans cancelled can go to the exchanges and get better insurance and almost always for a lot less money....
by Dave Johnson | Dec 18, 2013 | Economy, Trans-Pacific Partnership
There are numerous reports that the Obama administration is getting ready to push "Fast Track" legislation in Congress. It looks like there will be a major effort to get this through. We all need to understand what this means to our wages, jobs and economy. "Fast...
