by Dave Johnson | Jan 15, 2013 | Making it in America, Minimum Wage
Walmart has announced an initiative to buy more American-made goods and hire more than 100,000 veterans during the next five years. This is great. Will they pay the veterans a living wage? Or will they hand them instructions on how to apply for food stamps? Walmart...
by Dave Johnson | Jan 15, 2013 | Blog
The debt-ceiling law is a mistake. All lifting the debt ceiling does is authorize Congress to borrow the money that is needed to pay the bills that Congress has already mandated be paid. Tomorrow representatives Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Hank Johnson (D-GA), Jim Moran...
by Dave Johnson | Jan 15, 2013 | Blog
Yesterday, the president of the United States held a press conference with the DC elite press corps. They had the opportunity to ask the president what our government is doing about the nation's most serious problems. There were no questions about the climate change...
by Dave Johnson | Jan 15, 2013 | Blog
Sunday I interviewed Leo Gerard, International President of the United Steelworkers, a union with 1.3 million members. Now that we know Labor Secretary Hilda Solis is leaving the administration and a new Labor Secretary will be appointed and confirmed, I asked him...
by Dave Johnson | Jan 14, 2013 | Blog
A number of the DC elites are talking about changing the way Social Security checks are adjusted for inflation. This is a great idea, as long as any such adjustment measures the things the elderly actually spend money on. Let’s do it! Let's change the way we adjust...
