by Dave Johnson | Mar 6, 2011 | Blog, Making it in America
ABC News has been doing a series on Made In America, outfitting a Dallas family's home entirely with products that are made here. Click through to see videos from this week, before and after photos, a guide to finding goods Made In America on the Internet, as well as...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 4, 2011 | Blog, Economy
See if this sounds familiar. Get elected by promising jobs. But once in office push through tax cuts for the wealthy and their corporate masks, and cut jobs. Then use the resulting budget deficits and jobs crisis to whip up pubic panic. Finally, use that panic to push...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 4, 2011 | Blog, Economy
Robert Borosage says today's jobs report is "Treading Water." Isaiah Poole says "Treading Water—Barely." Robert Borosage, The February jobs report showing an increase of 192,000 jobs, with increased employment in virtually all sectors, provides welcome news. But don’t...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 3, 2011 | Blog
While Congress and the administration -- having just passed huge tax cuts for the wealthy -- fight over which of the things government does for We, the People to cut and by how much, the rest of us are looking at how many of our jobs this will cost. Will it be a cool...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 28, 2011 | Blog, Economy
There are good jobs and there are crappy jobs. There are burger-flipping jobs and there are skilled trades and professions. There are jobs that pay well and have benefits and jobs that don’t. There is even the job you had, now paying less, with no benefits. Much of...
