by Dave Johnson | Dec 7, 2016 | Blog
Our Revolution and Good Jobs Nation will hold a rally with low-wage federal contract workers Wednesday to launch "Good Jobs Defense" to call on President-elect Trump to stop all federal contractors from shipping jobs overseas and stealing the pay of workers who serve...
by Richard Eskow | Dec 7, 2016 | Blog
The future was supposed to bring prosperity and leisure to working people, not joblessness and misery. But that was before the money guys took over. This week Amazon announced that it’s planning to open a grocery store that has no cashiers or checkout lines. The...
by Monique Morrissey | Dec 6, 2016 | Blog
With a raised hand, my daughter’s teacher can magically line up 20 kindergarteners who are running circles around a loud gym. She’s at school when I drop my daughter off in the morning and still on the job—calling us and other parents from the subway—as my...
by Dave Johnson | Dec 6, 2016 | Blog
The U.S. Census Bureau reported Friday that the October trade deficit rose to $42.6 billion from a enormous and humongous 36.2 billion in September. That's a 17.8 percent increase. October exports were down $3.4 billion and imports were up $3.0 billion. The goods...
by Bill Scher | Dec 6, 2016 | Blog
During a CNBC interview, Greg Hayes, the CEO of Carrier's parent company United Technologies, reveals some of those 800 factory jobs allegedly saved in the deal engineered by Donald Trump will eventually be lost to automation: ...we're gonna make up $16 million...
by LeeAnn Hall | Dec 6, 2016 | Blog
The right-wing assault on the advances our country has made in the more than 70 years since the presidency of FDR isn’t waiting for Donald Trump’s inauguration. The battle to take away our health care, retirement benefits, and even food aid has already begun, with the...
