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...
by Terrance Heath | May 4, 2016 | Blog, Climate, Conservatism, Progressive Vision, This Is The GOP
Today, President Obama is visiting Flint, Michigan for the first time since state officials revealed that the city’s water was contained with lead. The president was invited to Flint not by Michigan’s Republican governor, Rick Snyder, but by eight-year-old Mari...
by Bill Scher | May 4, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism
Modern American Conservatism died last night at 7 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time. It was 35 years old. Born with the 1980 presidential election of Ronald Reagan, conservatism had an impressive childhood. After cutting taxes for the wealthy, deregulating the economy,...
by Dave Johnson | May 4, 2016 | Blog, Trade
The U.S. Census Bureau reported Wednesday that the March goods and services trade deficit fell to "only" an enormous, humongous level of $40.4 billion in March. This is $6.5 billion less than February (revised) but not for good reasons (see below). Chinese imports...
by Robert Borosage | May 4, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016, Progressive Vision
Bernie Sanders, the democratic socialist insurgent, won Indiana convincingly Tuesday night – 52.5 percent to 47.5 percent – over Hillary Clinton, the establishment moderate. This is a remarkable victory, a statement of the extent and scope of the Sanders surge....
by Dave Johnson | May 3, 2016 | Blog, Trade
""There are no red lines which would clearly protect environment and health." - Jorgo Riss, director of Greenpeace EU There has been a major leak concerning another "trade" agreement that is currently being negotiated in secret. This time it is the TTIP and it was...
