by Leo Gerard | Feb 26, 2010 | Blog
Leo W. Gerard: Richard, when you appeared recently at Youngstown State University as a guest of the Center for Working-Class Lecture Series, you talked about how essential manufacturing is to the U.S. economy and how politicians seem clueless about that. In fact, you...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Feb 26, 2010 | Blog
The latest bit of obstruction being staged by a Senate conservative, done in the name of limiting federal spending, is going to end up costing cash-strapped states millions of dollars as well as potentially causing millions of workers to lose their unemployment...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 26, 2010 | Blog
Whirlpool is closing a plant in Evansville, Indiana, and moving the jobs to Mexico, where the workers will be paid $70 per week. Our system is broken when "the market" encourages companies like Whirlpool to close factories, destroy the lives of American workers,...
by Bill Scher | Feb 26, 2010 | Blog
The partisan gulf was not just present in the summit room yesterday, but liberal and conservative bloggers also had completely different takes on what transpired. Liberals slammed the inability of Republicans to engage in serious discussion, while conservatives tried...
by Alex Lawson | Feb 25, 2010 | Blog
# With longer life expectancies than men, elderly women tend to live more years in retirement and have a greater chance of exhausting other sources of income. They benefit from Social Security's cost-of-living protections because benefits are annually adjusted for...
by Richard Eskow | Feb 25, 2010 | Blog
The pheremonic scent of compromise is inducing euphoria in the nation's capitol once again. Not that there's anything wrong with compromise, if it results in policies that work. But we've just pulled ourselves back from the brink of financial meltdown, and tens of...
