by Larry Cohen | Sep 8, 2015 | Blog
On a hot Iowa Labor Day weekend everyone was feeling the Bern! Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders himself set the pace on Friday and Saturday as he met with Native Americans on their reservation, and walked a picket line at Ingredion in Cedar Rapids. It...
by Leo Gerard | Sep 8, 2015 | Blog, Jobs and Growth, Progressive Vision
Instead of picnicking, Steelworkers in six states spent this Labor Day picketing the gates of a dozen Allegheny Technologies Inc. (ATI) specialty mills. These 2,200 Steelworkers are not on strike. They never even took a strike vote to threaten a walkout. ATI locked...
by Bill Scher | Sep 8, 2015 | Blog
The Republican-controlled Congress returns from August recess today, having put off its homework for as long as it possibly could. Republicans have 22 days to come up with a plan to keep the government open for the next fiscal year, and they have not even begun to...
by Terrance Heath | Sep 4, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
This week, President Obama gave a national landmark its name back. Wingnuts tried to make a mountain out of that molehill. President Obama made a historic trip to Alaska this week. What made it historic? Well, while there the president announced that he would restore...
by Robert Borosage | Sep 4, 2015 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
Today’s Bureau of Labor Statistics job report – 173,000 jobs created in August with headline unemployment edging down to 5.1 percent – is strong enough to stoke the noisy debate over whether the Federal Reserve should begin to raise interest rates despite the turmoil...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 3, 2015 | Blog, Trade
The U.S. Census Bureau reported Thursday that the July goods and services trade deficit was an enormous, humongous $41.9 billion. This is down from a revised $45.2 billion in June. This is an increase from May's enormous, humongous $40.9 billion trade deficit. We had...
