by Bill Scher | Apr 15, 2015 | Blog, Climate
[fve]https://youtu.be/Bgj7KexIPnw?t=41m[/fve] At Monday's Good Jobs Green Jobs conference, Sen. Elizabeth Warren deftly melded her case for building a stronger middle class with her call to avert a climate crisis, saying "both problems grow from the same roots and...
by Terrance Heath | Apr 15, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
In Fox host Bill O’Reilly’s alternate right-wing universe, Hillary Clinton’s presidential candidacy means, “If you are a Christian or a white man in the USA, it’s open season on you.” [fve]https://youtu.be/M6JR9ePQ0As[/fve] Here on earth, two more unarmed black men...
by Richard Eskow | Apr 15, 2015 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
On April 15, perhaps as you're reading these words, working people in 200 American cities will rally for a $15 base wage and the right to form a union. Solidarity demonstrations are planned in more than 30 cities on six continents, and have already taken place in...
by Robin Claremont | Apr 15, 2015 | Blog, Economy
Today is Tax Day, and millions of Americans are scrambling to file their taxes before the deadline. As you send in that check to the IRS or eagerly await your refund, have you stopped to think about what the federal government is doing with that money? Most Americans...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 14, 2015 | Blog, Economy, Jobs and Growth, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
One state that gets it about "NAFTA-style" trade deals is Ohio. Factory after factory has closed, shipping jobs offshore, and leaving communities devastated. Now Fast Track and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) are coming for the rest of the jobs, and Ohio is...
by Leo Gerard | Apr 14, 2015 | Blog
This is no plea for pity for corporate kingpins like Walmart and McDonald’s inundated by workers’ demands for living wages. Raises would, of course, cost these billion-dollar corporations something. More costly, though, is the price paid by minimum-wage workers who...
