by Bill Scher | May 6, 2016 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
[fve]https://youtu.be/HSEi0RXGVq8?t=10m8s[/fve] Donald Trump, being a politician, likes to say different things to different audiences. When he was running in the Republican primary, he rejected raising the minimum wage: "...wages [are] too high, we’re not going to be...
by Robert Borosage | May 6, 2016 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
The Bureau of Labor Statistics April jobs report – 160,000 jobs, unemployment stable at 5.0 percent – is cause for concern. Job growth lags the yearlong average of 232,000 per month, and is accompanied by downward revisions in the February and March totals. Both labor...
by Jeff Bryant | May 6, 2016 | Blog, Education
Conservative lawmakers are well known for wanting to cut funding to public education. But just remember, every time they take a swing at public school budgets, they hit poor kids. The newest blow aimed at public schools will hit low-income students in the stomach –...
by Isaiah J. Poole | May 5, 2016 | Blog, Financial Reform
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is on the verge of correcting a fundamental perversion of our justice system and restore to consumers their right to their day in court when they are wronged by a bank or credit card company. A new regulation that the agency...
by Dave Johnson | May 5, 2016 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
In 2011 the Obama administration sold the Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (KORUS) by promising "more exports, more jobs". The U.S. Trade Representative's website on KORUS still offers those promises. It still says right there the agreement "means countless new...
by Dave Johnson | May 4, 2016 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
Thursday has been declared a Verizon Strike National Day of Action. There are 39,000 Verizon workers on strike right now. They are not just striking for better pay and conditions from Verizon; this is also about how all of the giant corporations are treating all of...
