by Lynne Stuart Parramore | Apr 4, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, Economy, This Is The GOP
This post was originally published on the blog of the Institute for New Economic Thinking. From the lips of Paul Ryan, Chief Spokesman of Blame-the-Poor politics, came a curious mea culpa just last week: He should not have referred to hard-working Americans trying to...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 4, 2016 | Blog, Progressive Vision
[vimeo 160296205 w=500 h=281] Rev. William Barber, best known for leading North Carolina's Moral Monday movement, is launching a 15-state tour of the country, called "The Revival: Time for a Moral Revolution of Values." Denise Oliver Velez, writing at Daily Kos, in...
by Robert Borosage | Apr 4, 2016 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
The largest employer of low-wage workers in America is the federal government. U.S. government contractors employ over two million workers in jobs that pay too little – $12.00 an hour or less – to support a family. Contract workers – organizing under the banner of...
by Terrance Heath | Apr 1, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
This week, the problem wasn’t that Donald Trump believes women who have abortions after Roe v. Wade is overturned should be punished. The problem was that he said it out loud. It may go down in history as the beginning of the end of Donald Trump’s presidential...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 1, 2016 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
The March jobs report is out, and the news seems pretty good at first. But when you dig deeper it is the same old story: lower-to-middle-wage job gains, many higher-wage job losses. Gains in retail and food services. But there were losses again in manufacturing....
by Robert Borosage | Apr 1, 2016 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
The April jobs report – 215,000 jobs added in March, with official unemployment ticking up to 5 percent – shows an economy enjoying its 73rd straight month of private sector jobs growth. The U.S. recovery is the best among developed countries. But workers still see...
