by Dave Johnson | Nov 4, 2015 | Blog, Trade
The U.S. Census Bureau reported Wednesday that the September goods and services trade deficit was an enormous, humongous $40.8 billion. This is down 15 percent from August's enormous, humongous $40.8 (revised) billion trade deficit, (which was up 15.6 percent from...
by Dave Johnson | Nov 4, 2015 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) has been completed. The agreement is a big deal. It is said it writes the rules for doing business in the 21st century and covers 40 percent of the world's economy. The agreement will determine whether the giant corporations will...
by Robert Borosage | Nov 3, 2015 | Blog, Education
[fve]https://youtu.be/2zMbspRhqJc[/fve] Turns out the teachers got it right. The wheels are falling off the so-called “education reform” project which dismissed the voices of teachers – and particularly their unions – with no little vitriol. Reformers offered clear,...
by Robert Reich | Nov 3, 2015 | Blog, Financial Reform
Much of the national debate about widening inequality focuses on whether and how much to tax the rich and redistribute their income downward. But this debate ignores the upward redistributions going on every day, from the rest of us to the rich. These redistributions...
by Terrance Heath | Nov 3, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism, Democracy, Progressive Vision
Ohioans are voting Tuesday on a constitutional amendment to ban gerrymandering that could cure much of what ails our government and fix our broken political process. Ohio residents are voting on Issue One, which passed the Ohio General Assembly as HJR 12 last year,...
by Leo Gerard | Nov 3, 2015 | Blog, Retirement Security
Workers received a terrifying message last week, one far more bone-chilling than Halloween ghouls or Freddie Krueger. It was this: Retirement security is only for CEOs, not for workers. Two sources delivered this frightening news. One was a dozen Republican...
