by Leo Gerard | May 13, 2019 | Blog, Featured
Americans are not happy. And for good reason. They continue to suffer financial stress caused by decades of flat income. And every time they make the slightest peep of complaint about a system rigged against them, the rich and powerful tell them to shut up because it...
by Leo Gerard | May 1, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Future of Work, Jobs and Growth
Last year, on Halloween just before midnight, Frank Leasure left work at American Standard in Salem, Ohio. To get to his car in the employee lot, he had to walk across two sets of Norfolk Southern railroad tracks. He waited in frigid, driving rain for a westbound...
by Leo Gerard | Apr 24, 2019 | Blog, Economy, Featured, Inequality, Tax Reform
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Bernie Sanders, castigator of the one percent, is a millionaire now. So are Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren. Big whoop. There’s a crucial difference between these candidates seeking the Democratic presidential nomination and the super wealthy –...
by Leo Gerard | Apr 16, 2019 | Blog, Education, Future of Work
“Steelworker” generally evokes images of hulking mill buildings, steel-toed boots, and molten metal – not ivory towers, doctoral dissertations, and university research. But 2,000 graduate students at the University of Pittsburgh are voting this week on whether to...
by Leo Gerard | Apr 15, 2019 | Blog, Education, Future of Work, Protest
Alison McIntosh learned early that life is a little easier with help from friends. Her first professional job reinforced that notion. And now, as a University of Pittsburgh graduate student, she is asking her co-workers to embrace collectivism. McIntosh, who is...
