by Dave Johnson | Jul 4, 2010 | Blog, Minimum Wage
July 4, 1776, Independence Day celebrates our fight to cast off colonial rule by a wealthy elite who were keeping the benefits of our labors for themselves. We fought this system and we won our independence. In the years since We, the People have built up solid public...
by Dave Johnson | Jul 2, 2010 | Blog, Economy
The real jobs and deficit test is coming when the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy expire this year. If Congress lets them expire, deficit fears go away and there will be money to create jobs, maintain and modernize infrastructure, make the nation competitive in world...
by Dave Johnson | Jul 1, 2010 | Blog
This was in today's Progressive Breakfast, which of course you all read (sign up here), but I want to break it out for attention: W. Post's Harold Meyerson argues China and Germany are handling recession better because of manufacturing: "Most Americans, I suspect,...
by Dave Johnson | Jun 30, 2010 | Blog, Economy, Making it in America
China is cheating again. Yawn... China is subsidizing its paper industry ($33 billion 2002-09) and has tripled their production, and now is the largest producer of paper and paper products. Yawn. This has cost jobs and approximately 400,000 remaining American jobs are...
by Dave Johnson | Jun 29, 2010 | Blog, Economy
The real deficit is jobs. That is one more of those things that everyone can see in front of their faces, but we're told it isn't what it is. There aren't enough jobs, and we're being told this is our fault because we wanted pensions and good wages and vacations and...
