by Tula Connell | Feb 4, 2010 | Blog
Mike Hall on our AFL-CIO Now Blog staff wrote about the latest Republican maneuvering to kill a qualified nominee for the nation's Labor Board and I want to share it with you. Republican Senate leaders are so frightened that a member of the National Labor Relations...
by Robert Borosage | Feb 4, 2010 | Blog
The GOP: Grand, Old and Preposterous The GOP is unable and unwilling to have a serious conversation with Americans about the fix we are in. Instead the party's leaders posture and pose, as practiced as a Gregorian chorus in chanting their poll tested messaging that...
by Robert Borosage | Feb 4, 2010 | Blog, Economy
We expect January’s unemployment numbers, to be released Friday, to show that while Wall Street bankers continue to thrive, American workers continue to suffer under a deep recession. The numbers should serve as a stark reminder to Congress that the time to act...
by Bill Scher | Feb 4, 2010 | Blog
One thing I learned watching the climate debate last year is: don't pick a fight with Joe Romm. For example, the Freakonomics boys had their reputation permanently sullied by the brilliant policy analysis and Climate Progress blogger after daring to play loose with...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 3, 2010 | Blog, Economy
Just one of the many conservative failures cost 1.4 million jobs, all by itself. And never mind how much borrowing it caused. In Macroeconomic effects of Chinese mercantilism, Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman took a look at how many jobs have been lost...
by Terrance Heath | Feb 3, 2010 | Blog
Listening to conservatives squawk about deficits is a bit like taking parenting and/or relationship advice from Medea, the Gosselins or "Octomom." At best, they serve as an example of what not to do. As it is with children, so it is with conservatives and deficits....
