by Dave Johnson | Oct 30, 2013 | Trans-Pacific Partnership
You've probably been hearing warnings about the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) "trade" agreement that is being negotiated. And you might have heard that the big corporations are going to push to use something called "fast track" trade promotion authority (TPA) to...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 29, 2013 | Blog
Amtrak doesn't "make money" so Republicans want to cut back on service to rural areas. This is America's ideological tension: democracy serves We the People, plutocracy and markets serve the people who have money. Of course you read Progressive Breakfast every morning...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 29, 2013 | Blog
You may have heard the early estimate putting the cost of the shutdown at $24 billion. Time's Swampland has the number, in Here’s How Much The Government Shutdown Cost The Economy. That was an early and very low estimate. It included, About $3.1 billion in lost...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 28, 2013 | Making it in America
Did you think manufacturing was old-fashioned, dirty and low-skilled? Have you noticed how when you see a factory in a TV show it's an old, burnt-down building with broken windows? (And then the drug dealers drive in from one side, and the "good guys" from the other,...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 25, 2013 | Blog
An anti-union letter in my local paper today inadvertently exposes what's going on with the economy. This letter is about the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) transit-worker strike, but applies to working people across the country. (Working people means people who work...
