by Dave Johnson | Sep 4, 2010 | Blog, Economy
The stimulus worked but was not enough. Here is the result: This is known as "the scariest jobs chart," from
by Richard Eskow | Sep 3, 2010 | Blog
Events of the last week have made the Deficit Commission an embarrassment. Co-Chair Alan Simpson is a one-man disaster movie, compulsively offending one key voting bloc after another. Commission member Paul Ryan faced an angry crowd over his anti-Social Security...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 3, 2010 | Blog, Minimum Wage
"Who could have known?" That's the cry from the big-corporate and DC elite as the economy and the environment and so many imporant things crash around us. (Around us, not them, they're doing just fine and taking good care of each other.) Who could have known that...
by Leo Gerard | Sep 3, 2010 | Blog, Making it in America, Minimum Wage
This Labor Day feels gloomy. It’s a celebration of work when there is not enough of it, a day off when too many desperately seek a day on. America has commemorated two Labor Days since this brutal recession began near the end of George Bush’s presidency in December of...
by Tula Connell | Sep 2, 2010 | Blog
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka yesterday described the upcoming elections this way: This election is about economic patriots, and it’s also about corporate traitors. Economic patriotism resonates among working people and the millions ofAmerica's jobless workers--and...
by Bill Scher | Sep 2, 2010 | Blog
Soon after Congress passed health care reform, Minnesota Gov. and likely '12 presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty decried that "we now have the federal government reaching so far inside our society, dictating whether human behavior is good or not." A few weeks earlier,...
