by Richard Long | Apr 9, 2013 | Chained CPI
Opponents of President Obama’s ”chained CPI” proposal to reduce cost-of-living increases in Social Security protested in front of the White House this afternoon, bringing with them boxes of petitions bearing two million signatures urging the president to not include...
by Richard Long | Apr 1, 2013 | Blog
“In this country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power.” Ah yes, the immortal words of philosopher Antonio Montana in his seminal work, “Scarface.” Unfortunately, he has a point. Those who have the money in America do have the...
by Richard Long | Mar 14, 2013 | Economy, Making it in America
California Representative John Garamendi held a conference call today to build support for H.R. 949, The Invest in American Jobs Act of 2013, with the Campaign for America’s Future’s Robert Borosage and Dave Johnson. This bill, introduced last week, has bipartisan...
by Richard Long | Mar 5, 2013 | Minimum Wage
The news just keeps getting better for the millions of Americans making minimum wage. Today, three weeks to the day after President Obama called for raising the minimum wage to $9 an hour in the State of the Union address, two congressional Democrats have done him one...
by Richard Long | Feb 28, 2013 | The Sequester
In the last several years, new economic terms have entered the American lexicon. Debt ceiling, fiscal cliff, sequestration. Well, we reached a deal on the first one, though it lowered our credit rating, and eventually took a few steps away from the fiscal cliff,...
