by | Jun 21, 2011 | Blog, Economy, Minimum Wage
With unemployment at a near historic high in the United States, could you imagine any American company bringing in foreign workers to work for them below the minimum wage and with no benefits? Most people would say no. But can you imagine those same Americans forcing...
by Richard Eskow | Jun 20, 2011 | Blog
So far from God, so close to the Republican National Committee When some Simpsons characters took refuge in the local church after a hurricane, the church marquee read "God welcomes his victims." With that invitation, Reverend Lovejoy (an underrated Simpsons character...
by Dave Johnson | Jun 20, 2011 | Blog, Economy
The ProgressiveCongress.org and the Congressional Progressive Caucus launched the Speakout for Good Jobs Tour in Minneapolis Saturday. They will hold Speakout events in 11 cities across the country. This is a major opportunity to build public awareness that leads to...
by Bill Scher | Jun 20, 2011 | Blog
Conservatives are in a froth because the National Labor Relations Board attorneys are merely pursuing a legal case against Boeing for shifting plans for a new factory to a state with weak labor laws to blunt the ability of its unionized to go on strike. Last week,...
by Sam Pizzigati | Jun 19, 2011 | Blog
Amid fierce fiscal austerity, a borough in London is doing battle to level up the poor and level down the rich. Imagine if a borough in New York tried something as ambitious. In the United States and Britain, the developed world’s two most unequal major nations, you...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 18, 2011 | Blog
An email the Campaign for America's Future sent to its supporters a few weeks ago with the subject line "How Would You Take Back The American Dream?" kicked off a lively debate on a listserv of progressive activists. What do you mean when you say "the American dream"?...
