by Dave Johnson | Jun 24, 2011 | Blog, Making it in America
President Obama today announced a new Advanced Manufacturing Partnership that will bring together industry, universities and the federal government to invest in emerging technologies. This is nuts-and-bolts government work, to help American manufacturing and American...
by Dave Johnson | Jun 23, 2011 | Blog, Making it in America
I watched a Congressional hearing yesterday (webcast), examining why we need a national industrial strategy. There were a few pro-manufacturing voices. But in a surprise move, Republicans and representatives of Wall Street & giant multinationals opposed such a policy...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 23, 2011 | Blog
The Federal Reserve and its chairman, Ben Bernanke, should not be allowed to get away with what they did on Wednesday. What they did at the end of their Open Market Committee meeting was to essentially throw up their hands in the face of their legal responsibility to...
by Jeff Bryant | Jun 23, 2011 | Blog, Education
As American public education arrives at the summer of its discontent, we have to contemplate how a system that has already had over 201,600 jobs wrung from its payrolls since August 2008 will handle the prospect of having to shed nearly a quarter of a million more...
by Terrance Heath | Jun 23, 2011 | Blog
It's Walmart's world, and the rest of us are just living in it. That seems to be the take away from the Supreme Court's ruling in Duke v. Walmart. The court ruled on a narrow aspect of the case, but the decision has broad and foreboding implications for workers,...
