by Dave Johnson | Sep 9, 2013 | Shutdown
Congress is coming back to Washington, and the Republican agenda of obstructing efforts to help jobs and the economy will continue. But in the next weeks they will make the economy worse with threats to shut down the entire government over Obamacare and blow up the...
by Richard Eskow | Sep 8, 2013 | Federal Reserve Chair, Financial Reform
The selection of the next Federal Reserve chair is no longer just a matter of policy or personnel. It has also become a test of the Obama administration’s ability to respond pragmatically when confronted with evidence that its preferred course of action would be...
by Joshua Holland | Sep 6, 2013 | Economy, Minimum Wage, Progressive Vision, The Jobs Challenge
Low-Wage Employers Have Fought Hard to Keep Their Workers Poor — Now Workers are Fighting Back (via Moyers & Company) After decades of seeing their incomes shrink, those at the bottom of the economic ladder are starting to band together and fight back — and it’s...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Sep 6, 2013 | The Jobs Challenge
As Washington today digests the significance of yet another ho-hum jobs report, "official" Washington would do well to take a short trip to what many of us consider part of the "real" Washington, where there is a lot more clarity about what our top economic priority...
by Digby | Sep 5, 2013 | Economy, The Jobs Challenge, The Sequester
I haven't heard much concern about the cost of this Syrian operation which is kind of surprising since the last four years has been a non-stop barrage of rhetoric about the need to cut government spending, from members of both parties. We've had epic unemployment...
by Terrance Heath | Sep 5, 2013 | Economy, Making it in America, Minimum Wage
If you're like millions of Americans, Labor Day was an actual holiday. While you enjoyed a day off, Labor Day was just another workday for many of the low-wage workers who went on strike for livable wages in over 60 cities last week. According to a survey from...
