by Dave Johnson | Mar 1, 2010 | Blog, Economy
Last week the Washington Post ran an op-ed with the curious headline, “The Green Jobs Myth.” Oil and coal lobbyists everywhere, well-aware that most people only read headlines and a few paragraphs at most, were giving each other high-fives. You see, a headline like...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 26, 2010 | Blog
Whirlpool is closing a plant in Evansville, Indiana, and moving the jobs to Mexico, where the workers will be paid $70 per week. Our system is broken when "the market" encourages companies like Whirlpool to close factories, destroy the lives of American workers,...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 25, 2010 | Blog
Yesterday: Whirlpool Threatens Workers Who Protest Plant Closing, I thought that was the end of it, but whoa, what's this? Whirlpool Threatens Workers: Protesting Plant Closure Risks 'Future Jobs' A major corporation planning to shut down a factory in Indiana has...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 25, 2010 | Blog
A month ago while covering the arrest of James O'Keefe after his attempt to tamper with the phones at Senator Mary Landrieu's office the New York Times repeated conservative misinformation that smeared ACORN, and is now refusing to retract their "reporting." James...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 24, 2010 | Blog
The other day I posted Whirlpool Bites Hands Of American Taxpayers That Feed It saying, in summary, • Whirlpool closes a plant in Evansville • Taxpayers will shoulder the unemployment and other costs. • All the local supplier, transportation and other third-party jobs...
