by Robert Borosage | Jul 17, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth, Progressive Vision
House Democrats released their 2014 election year platform Wednesday, entitled "Middle Class Jump Start: 100 Day Action Plan to Put the Middle Class First." Naturally, the release of a major party’s election year agenda received virtually no press coverage, far less...
by Robert Borosage | Jul 9, 2014 | Blog, Economy, Populist Majority
Over at the Washington Post, the usually sensible Greg Sargent endorses the notion that divisions among Democrats are “mostly trumped up.” The tension between the Wall Street wing of the party and the Warren (as in Elizabeth) wing is an overblown fiction of a press...
by Robert Borosage | Jul 7, 2014 | Blog
On July 4, The Washington Post published an article "reporting" that President Obama has “abandoned talk” of inequality this election year, focusing instead on the “politically palatable theme of lifting the middle class.” This represents, writer Zachary Goldfarb...
by Robert Borosage | Jul 3, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
The June Bureau of Labor Services jobs report – a higher than expected increase of 288,000 jobs with the unemployment rate declining to 6.1% – provides a splash of good news, following the grim reality of an economy that actually contracted in the first quarter of the...
by Robert Borosage | Jul 2, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
The ruling of the Supreme Court’s conservative gang of five in Harris v. Quinn is a direct attack on the ability of workers to organize and bargain collectively. The ruling, in a case invented by the right-wing National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, is but...
