by Dave Johnson | May 1, 2015 | Blog, Trade
Khalil Bendib/OtherWords If you make things and sell them, you do better over time than if you borrow to buy things. If you send jobs and factories out of the country, you end up with devastated cities like Baltimore. Sure, a few people get rich from that, but 99...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 30, 2015 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
The great Thomas "Mustache" Friedman is perhaps best known for encouraging the invasion of Iraq (and subsequent resistance insurgency, civil war, thousands of American and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi deaths, eventually leading to the formation of ISIS – plus the...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 29, 2015 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
Last week, in "Government Sweatshops: A Time for the President to Act," Robert Borosage wrote about federal government contract employees working for poverty wages: This week in Washington, hundreds of low wage federal government contract workers walked off their...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 28, 2015 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
Republicans in Congress can read polls and letters from their constituents as well as Democrats, and they, as most Democrats already have done, are starting to realize that it might not be wise to rubber-stamp the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the rigged fast...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 28, 2015 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
Power is the ability to control, to tell what to do, to get your way. Corporations have a lot of power over working people in our country now, and they might be about to get a lot more. The proponents of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) tell us that it will have...
