by Dave Johnson | Sep 3, 2010 | Blog, Minimum Wage
"Who could have known?" That's the cry from the big-corporate and DC elite as the economy and the environment and so many imporant things crash around us. (Around us, not them, they're doing just fine and taking good care of each other.) Who could have known that...
by Dave Johnson | Aug 31, 2010 | Blog
Last weekend was the anniversary of Martin Luther King's March on Washington For Jobs and Freedom, and Labor Day is next weekend. Last weekend Glenn Beck tried to hijack the MLK march anniversary in the name of the far right and their tea party noisemakers, but we...
by Dave Johnson | Aug 30, 2010 | Blog, Minimum Wage
America was formed as a government of, by and for We, the People. It says so right in the first words of our Constitution. To get that Constitution we rebelled against the King and England's aristocracy and their corporations, with their concentrated wealth and power....
by Dave Johnson | Aug 27, 2010 | Blog, Economy
When we pack up a factory here -- and all of its jobs and supply chain and its support/.maintenance structure -- and send it all over there to a country that doesn't have the wage and safety and environmental protections we have, just to save a bit of money today we...
by Dave Johnson | Aug 26, 2010 | Blog
In today’s New York Times, One Liberal Voice Dares to Say, Cut the Budget, by Matt Bai. Bai's piece frames the federal debt as almost entirely the fault of Social Security, with cutting Social Security the only real way to fix the problem. Bai claims that "liberal...
