by Isaiah J. Poole | Sep 20, 2010 | Blog, Minimum Wage
What do you say to a person with a story like the one of suburban Seattle resident Patricia Reid, the unemployed 57-year-old profiled in The New York Times on Monday? ...[F]our years after losing her job she cannot, in her darkest moments, escape a nagging thought:...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Sep 17, 2010 | Blog
The New York Times today is publishing yet again news about an important Democratic Party constituency, this time union members, threatening to sit on its hands in the November elections, giving Republicans a clear shot at a takeover of at least one house of Congress....
by Isaiah J. Poole | Sep 17, 2010 | Blog
The contrast between an aggressive policy of jump-starting growth and putting Americans back to work and the old, failed trickle-down economics formula was on sharp display Thursday in a mini-debate on CNBC Thursday between Robert Kuttner of The American Prospect and...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Sep 16, 2010 | Blog, Economy
Senate Finance Committee chairman Max Baucus has introduced a bill today that is a frankly unadventurous mix of jobs initiatives and tax incentives, with a healthy dose of loophole-closings to make sure that it can be presented as revenue-neutral. (Don't accuse Baucus...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Sep 14, 2010 | Blog, Economy
The House of Representatives, which returns from its summer recess today, and the Senate, which returned Monday, really only has one legislative priority it should be focused on before members return to the campaign trail: Treat the jobs emergency as the emergency...
