by Dave Johnson | Mar 19, 2012 | Blog, Minimum Wage
... is separation from reality caused by internalizing decades of endlessly repeated right-wing propaganda. This time it shows up in a discussion of the effect of top tax rates by Christina Romer. I hate to pick on Romer again, but... In the New York Times' Economic...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 19, 2012 | Blog, Making it in America, Minimum Wage
“There was clearly something wrong with the U.S. economy long before the crash.” Consensus Consensus. Again and again, people who examine what went wrong with our economy leading up to the great recession come to the same conclusions! Study after study, book after...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 18, 2012 | Blog, Reagan Revolution
(This post was originally published June 16, 2010) It seems that you can look at a chart of almost anything and right around 1981 or soon after you'll see the chart make a sharp change in direction, and probably not in a good way. And I really do mean almost anything,...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 18, 2012 | Blog
The Chamber of Commerce and the AFL-CIO promised a big infrastructure push. The AFL-CIO pushed, the Chamber backed off. Democrats and President Obama should embrace a big investment in jobs – and challenge the Republicans to support it. The American Majority wants it....
by Dave Johnson | Mar 15, 2012 | Blog
People are organizing to protest in front of Apple stores timed to coincide with the iPad 3 launch tomorrow, to remind people that Apple is using exploited Chinese workers to build their products. I have been writing about the situation of exploited Apple workers in...
