by Dave Johnson | Jun 3, 2015 | Blog, Trade
It's up to you now. Call your representative today. Call, call, call. The House of Representatives is getting ready to vote on fast track – any day now. Call and demand they vote NO on fast track. If we swamp them with phone calls, we will deliver a powerful message...
by Leo Gerard | Jun 2, 2015 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
It’s all the rage now for Republican presidential candidates to spurn the Royal Romney approach and, instead, to fawn over workers. When former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum announced his presidential bid last week, he did it from a factory floor and called for increasing...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 2, 2015 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
[fve]https://youtu.be/TMpn97UXO5I[/fve] Scott Klinger of the Center for Effective Government explains how fair corporate taxes would help close the nation's infrastructure spending deficit. It's too bad that Congress was out of session this past Friday. Members would...
by Richard Eskow | Jun 1, 2015 | Blog
George W. Bush: His policies brought untold harm, but at least his gaffes offered some occasional lighthearted moments. Now his brother Jeb may have outdone him in the faux pas department - but there's nothing funny about it. The former Florida governor has been...
by Cormac Close | Jun 1, 2015 | Blog, Financial Reform
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau unveiled a new set of proposals this past March to protect Americans from payday loans, a $27 billion industry offering short-term loans due the next payday. Now the industry is weighing in, saying that the rules would break...
by Dave Johnson | Jun 1, 2015 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
There is a new dispute over whether the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a "trade" agreement or not. One side says TPP is about trade, and sells it that way. The other side says that most of TPP is not about trade so it is important to examine the effect of the...
