by Michael Winship | Sep 10, 2013 | Minimum Wage, Progressive Vision, The Jobs Challenge
In Los Angeles, Labor Redefines Itself (via Moyers & Company) “It’s time to turn America right side up!” AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka exhorted those in attendance at the labor alliance’s quadrennial convention in Los Angeles on Monday. Time, he said in his keynote...
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 Robert Borosage | Jul 31, 2013 | The Jobs Challenge
President Obama took his case for jobs to Chattanooga, Tenn., yesterday, with an Amazon warehouse as a discordant backdrop. The president repeated his powerful case that to rebuild the middle class, we need a serious long-term strategy that includes investments vital...
by Dave Johnson | Jul 30, 2013 | The Jobs Challenge
The President visits Chattanooga today to continue to promote his job-creation campaign. But Amazon? Really? Why is President Obama using Amazon to tout his ideas for job creation? President Welcomed To Chattanooga Today in Chattanooga the President visits an Amazon...
