by Jackie Tortora | Jan 24, 2014 | Economy, State of the Union, The Jobs Challenge
President Barack Obama will give his annual State of the Union address to the American people next week. But what is the state of our union? The vast majority of America's working families have experienced a raw deal in recent decades. Wages are falling, the gulf...
by Thom Hartmann | Jan 22, 2014 | Economy, Minimum Wage, The Jobs Challenge
Economic inequality is a major threat to human progress. According to a new report from Oxfam, 85 people control the same amount of wealth as half the population of the entire world, and the top one percent has 65 times the wealth of the bottom half. This...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 17, 2014 | The Jobs Challenge, Unemployment Benefits
[fve]http://youtu.be/IodMh1T-eVw[/fve] As Republican senators were preparing to head to their home states Thursday for a week-long recess, several of them told The Huffington Post's Michael McAuliff that they have no regrets about filibustering an extension of...
by Joshua Holland | Jan 9, 2014 | Economy, The Jobs Challenge, Trans-Pacific Partnership
Fool Me Once: 20 Years of NAFTA Show Why the Trans-Pacific Partnership Must be Stopped (via Moyers & Company) The post-NAFTA era has been marked by growing inequality, declining job security and new leverage for corporations to attack government regulations...
by Thom Hartmann | Jan 6, 2014 | Conservatism, Economy, The Jobs Challenge
Congress is back from vacation, but that doesn't mean Republicans are ready to get to work. Senate Democrats have already scheduled a test vote to restore unemployment insurance, but Republicans say they won't approve an extension without something in return. As of...
by Roger Hickey | Jan 6, 2014 | The Jobs Challenge
Praise the Lord! It looks as though Democrats are starting to act like populists as we go into 2014. A few weeks ago, President Obama declared economic inequality has become the "defining challenge of our time." Bill de Blasio, sworn in on January 1 as mayor of New...
