by Dave Johnson | May 15, 2015 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
President Obama says progressives who warn that trade laws let corporations overrule U.S. law are "making this stuff up." Two attacks on U.S. laws and regulations are underway right now, illustrating how the "corporate courts" provisions in the Trans-Pacific...
by Terrance Heath | May 15, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism
This week, wingnut heads exploded when President Obama took right-wingers to task for shaming low-income Americans and Michelle Obama spoke about her experience as the first African-American first lady. Let’s be honest, it doesn’t take much to get wingnuts going. It...
by Dave Johnson | May 15, 2015 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
As promised, here is the list of Democratic senators who joined Republicans to break the filibuster of fast track trade promotion authority. Fast track essentially preapproves the Trans-Pacific Partnership before the pubic gets a chance to know what is in it. As I...
by Isaiah J. Poole | May 15, 2015 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
A legislative committee this week sent to the Michigan Senate a law that would eliminate prevailing wage laws on state construction contracts. The law is designed to push down wages paid to workers on the projects. The fact that the law does not have the support of...
by Dave Johnson | May 14, 2015 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
[fve]https://youtu.be/-Lzb7PmYdv4[/fve] Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden and between 10 and 14 "corporate Democrats" in the Senate on Wednesday reached a deal to push "fast track" trade promotion authority through the Senate, essentially preapproving the Trans-Pacific Alliance...
by Richard Eskow | May 14, 2015 | Blog, Economy
An NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll recently asked the following question: “Which concerns you more: the income gap between the wealthiest Americans and the rest of the country, or middle and working class Americans not being able to get ahead financially?” If you...
