by Richard Long | Mar 27, 2014 | Economy, Tax Reform
The taxes paid by corporations today are near record lows as a percentage of the United States’ total tax bill, even as they are recording massive profits. Yet the unemployment rate is still high. However, if we turned back the clock on corporate tax rates and...
by Richard Long | Feb 13, 2014 | Minimum Wage
Today, 2/13, is the day before Valentine’s Day. $2.13 is the base wage at which tipped employees must be paid, implemented in 1991. This means that there is a strong likelihood that the server of your Friday evening Valentine’s dinner would not be able to purchase a...
by Richard Long | Feb 5, 2014 | Democracy
If you follow politics, you know the names Koch, Adelson, American Crossroads and Priorities USA Action. If you don’t know the names, you know their tools, the fearmongering ads that purport that voting for this candidate or another will cause the downfall of the...
by Richard Long | Jan 24, 2014 | Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
The head of the Alliance for American Manufacturing, who has just coauthored a book that offers proposals for revitalizing American manufacturing, has added his voice to the broad coalition opposing the Trans-Pacific Partnership and calling on Congress to not...
by Richard Long | Jan 17, 2014 | Education
Here’s a news flash for you that’s neither news nor flash: The majority of college graduates are coming out of school with student loan debt. Today, nearly 70 percent of college graduates come out of school saddled with an average debt of $29,400. Check out this map...
