by Tobita Chow | Mar 20, 2020 | Blog, COVID-19, Featured, Health
Photo credit: Gage Skidmore / flickr / cc As the crisis around Covid-19, the novel coronavirus that has sparked a global pandemic, has unfolded sending shockwaves through the U.S. economy, President Trump and his allies wasted no time casting blame on China. On...
by Tobita Chow | Jan 23, 2020 | Blog, Climate, Economy, Election, Environment, Featured, Future of Work, Trade
Trump crows the “Phase One” trade agreement with China is a "promise kept" to his supporters to rebalance trade between the two nations. But it is really just a temporary truce in his trade war. This truce may not last long or deliver anything close to the outcomes he...
by Tobita Chow | Jul 12, 2018 | Blog
In early March, President Trump announced steel tariffs as part of a protectionist, anti-China economic strategy. Since then, he's put tariffs on $34 billion of Chinese products, and threatens to sanction $200 billion more. Some progressives support these tariffs on...
by Tobita Chow | Jun 12, 2017 | Blog
Tobita Chow delivered the following speech to the "From Resistance to Power" session at the People's Summit, a gathering of more than four thousand progressive activists in Chicago over the weekend of June 9-11, 2017. We live in a time of crisis. Billionaires and...
by Tobita Chow | May 26, 2017 | Blog
The White House has sent formal notice to Congress that it is initiating the process to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). All evidence suggests that despite Trump’s claims to the contrary, this puts us on track to yet another corporate trade...