by Isaiah J. Poole | Feb 1, 2013 | Making it in America
Today's Bureau of Labor Statistics unemployment report was another one reflecting a so-called "new normal" for the economy in which what borders on bad is heralded as good. Let's not be ambiguous about this. The fact that the economy created 157,000 jobs in January,...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 31, 2013 | Blog
The Campaign for America's Future 's Roger Hickey today joins a long list of leaders who are calling on President Obama to name Heidi Hartmann, the founder and president of the Institute for Women's Policy Research, to be the next Secretary of Labor. "The next...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 30, 2013 | Economy, Making it in America
Now that he is a freshman senator, Connecticut Democrat Chris Murphy says he plans in the coming weeks to continue the push he started as a member of the House to advance a "Make It in America" jobs agenda. That agenda includes cracking down on China's currency...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 30, 2013 | The Sequester
An effort to move the fight against poverty to the top of the national agenda begins today, led by the Half in 10 campaign and the Coalition for Human Needs. The major campaign goal is to persuade President Obama to talk about poverty and its solutions in his State of...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 29, 2013 | Uncategorized
MORNING MESSAGE: Smart Talk On The Next Austerity Disaster OurFuture.org's Robert Borosage and Richard Eskow: "Mass unemployment, declining wages, and faltering growth suggests the United States has already suffered too much austerity, too soon. And yet the political...
