by Jim Hightower | Oct 7, 2015 | Blog, Climate, Conservatism, Economy
If a picture is worth 1,000 words, here’s one worth a thousand times that. It’s a shot of three Volkswagen board members, gathered for a press conference to announce the resignation of Martin Winterkorn. VW’s disgraced CEO was forced out after the auto giant was...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 7, 2015 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
Setting the stage for The White House Summit on Worker Voice, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Wis.) today introduced The Workplace Democracy Act. According to Sanders' office, this legislation "would make it easier for workers to join unions and...
by Bill Scher | Oct 7, 2015 | Blog, Economy
Someday, the Republican Party will accept that, if it wants to be taken seriously as a governing party, it needs to have a platform that breaks with the failed policies of President George W. Bush. Today is not that day. First, let's recall some of the key components...
by Terrance Heath | Oct 6, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
Unable to govern and unwilling to be governed, the deepest dysfunctions of the House Republican conference are rising to the surface, as the party struggles to choose a new speaker. Rep. John Boehner’s resignation as House speaker was the first sign of just how bad...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 6, 2015 | Blog, Jobs and Growth, Trans-Pacific Partnership
The U.S. Census Bureau reported Tuesday that the August goods and services trade deficit was an enormous, humongous $48.3 billion. This is a big 15.6% increase from July's enormous, humongous $41.8 (revised) billion trade deficit. Exports dropped 2 percent and imports...
by Leo Gerard | Oct 6, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism, Economy, Jobs and Growth, This Is The GOP
Republicans and the rich guys who imposed on American workers 35 years of stagnant wages now offer a prescription for easing this pain! Their solution for robber-baron-level income inequality is not the obvious: Give workers raises. They don’t want to increase the...
