by Dave Johnson | Nov 10, 2015 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
With Tuesday marking one year before election day the Fight For $15 movement hit the fast-food industry with walkouts and protests in hundreds of U.S. cities. They hope to get presidential candidates talking about raising the minimum wage. The Fight For $15 movement...
by Dave Johnson | Nov 10, 2015 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a lot more than a "trade" deal. Among other things, it includes provisions that limit how governments can regulate corporations and allows corporations to sue governments in "corporate courts" that bypass the sovereignty of...
by Leo Gerard | Nov 10, 2015 | Blog, Economy, Jobs and Growth
Americans who once earned family-supporting wages working in factories, foundries and mills across this country began destroying themselves at a shocking rate five years after implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). That’s because such deals...
by Terrance Heath | Nov 9, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
In Ben Carson Republicans have found a candidate who truly makes George W. Bush look like an intellectual giant, and yet another representative of a right-wing culture where belief is more important than knowledge. In May, I wrote a post titled “Ben Carson’s 13...
by Dave Johnson | Nov 9, 2015 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
Many in Congress have been concerned about the effect of currency manipulation on our country's ability to sell things to the world. They demanded that the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) outlaw the practice. The administration promised that the TPP and accompanying...
by Bill Scher | Nov 9, 2015 | Blog
After the Democrats lost the Kentucky governor's race last week, following the Republican down-ballot triumphs in the 2010 and 2014 midterms, declarations that the Democratic Party is dead quickly made the rounds. The implication is that Barack Obama's two...
