by Dave Johnson | Jun 3, 2016 | Blog, Trade
The U.S. Census Bureau reported Friday that the April goods and services trade deficit was $37.4 billion in April, up $1.9 billion from a revised $35.5 billion in March. (March was previously reported as $40.4 billion before the revision.) According to the report:...
by Robert Borosage | Jun 3, 2016 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
The Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the economy added only a startling few 38,000 jobs in May, the weakest number in six years. The official unemployment rate declined dramatically to 4.7 percent, recording not new hiring but new...
by Jeff Bryant | Jun 3, 2016 | Blog, Education, Election 2016
Revelations from documents connected to Trump University are generating outrage across the political spectrum, from my colleague Terrance Heath, who called it "a scheme to transfer wealth from people who had little," to the conservative journal National Review, which...
by Courtney Freudenthal | Jun 2, 2016 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
From Congress to the presidential election, politicians are talking about working family issues. Progressives propose paid parental and medical leave, affordable child care and reliable scheduling; conservatives offer business-friendly "workplace flexibility" that...
by Liz Ryan Murray | Jun 2, 2016 | Blog, Financial Reform
The stories are endless. ● A woman in Wisconsin cashed out her retirement savings of $28,000 to help her daughter get out from under a payday loan that started as just a few hundred dollars to help pay the bills. ● A man in Alabama took out a title loan...
by Jeff Bryant | Jun 1, 2016 | Blog, Education
First Lady Michelle Obama is scheduled on Friday to provide a commencement address to the graduating class of 3,000 students at The City College of New York in Harlem. As the White House announcement states, her address has some additional historic significance in...
