by Sam Pizzigati | Jun 15, 2011 | Blog
One of the three 'serious' candidates for the 2012 Republican White House bid says the tax cuts for the rich he's proposing will expand America's 'entrepreneurial' class. What does history say? Last week, in a “major policy address,” GOP Presidential...
by Dave Johnson | Jun 15, 2011 | Blog
This weekend I went to the San Mateo (CA) County Fair. My wife’s dance troupe (pic here) and students were performing. (They were on a stage next to and immediately before the pig races, near the funnel cake stand.) I got there early and before they started I walked...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 14, 2011 | Blog
Conservatives are masters at manipulating public expectations for their ends, and they are doing it to particularly disastrous effect when it comes to what we should expect on jobs. The result is that we are being persuaded to accept the unacceptable. That is the tide...
by Robert Borosage | Jun 14, 2011 | Blog, Economy, Minimum Wage
"It's an employer's world," said Rebecca Penny, a 55-year-old widow who was laid off over a year ago from her job at a Chevrolet plant in Tennessee. "I lost my benefits the night I was laid off. Now I can't afford medicine. And I can only find minimum...
by | Jun 14, 2011 | Blog, Making it in America
That’s the word I’d use to describe the recent leadership of both Political Parties on American jobs, and especially factory jobs. The only development on Monday more depressing than President Obama’s trip to an outsourcing manufacturer in North Carolina was the...
by Bill Scher | Jun 14, 2011 | Blog
Yesterday, I proposed CNN ask the Republican presidential candidates, "Why didn't the Bush tax cuts create jobs?" CNN's debate moderator John King asked that precise question to Tim Pawlenty in last night's debate. Pawlenty had no answer. JOHN KING: Where's the proof...
