by Eric Lotke | Sep 25, 2009 | Blog, Minimum Wage
The G-20 Summit is wrapping up today. We can compare its performance to promises made in advance. Leaders discussed financial markets, of course, but they also made promises about jobs and work. Some highlights: “3. We must promote employment through structural...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 24, 2009 | Blog
A while back I read a blog post by Kim Cranston, of Transparent Democracy, Humanity's Greatest Challenge and Its Solution. That post stuck with me. Kim wrote, Climate change is not humanity's greatest challenge… Neither are pandemics, nuclear proliferation, water...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 24, 2009 | Blog
I took a walk across town to the United Steelworkers building, which turned out to be pretty much deserted. I walked down the main streets where the businesses were largely closed, the sidewalks were ... deserted. Except for lots of cops. The office buildings are...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 24, 2009 | Blog
I am in Pittsburgh for the G20. The big issues here are, Economic restructuring to prevent another collapse, including regulation of banks, with banker pay a key component of what other countries are identifying as a problem, Trade imbalances, Climate, Jobs, and Jobs....
by Brian Dockstader | Sep 24, 2009 | Blog, Rick Perlstein
I have been restraining myself from writing a post about ACORN for some time now. It isn't that I haven't had plenty of thoughts about the faux scandal and the right-wing-media-led poo storm and subsequent political lynching that followed; I simply felt that there...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 24, 2009 | Blog
I am in Pittsburgh for the G20. I am working out of the Climate Action Network Media Center located at the August Wilson Center downtown. The location of the G20 was switched to Pittsburgh in May, in order to showcase the city as revitalized by becoming an...
