by Dave Johnson | Feb 27, 2015 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
Eight senators on Thursday let the country know there is going to be a fight over fast-track trade authority and the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Sens. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Bob Casey (D-Pa.), Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Edward Markey (D-Mass.),...
by Emily Schwartz Greco | Feb 26, 2015 | Blog, Climate
When 27 CSX tanker cars loaded with fracked North Dakota crude tumbled onto a West Virginia riverbank on President’s Day, the ensuing fireballs leveled a house and forced hundreds of people to flee amid a heavy snowstorm. Even though 19 of the derailed cars — each...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 26, 2015 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
[fve]http://youtu.be/cYg0pEr-3fU[/fve] All the talk about "trade" deals might seem complicated, with all the "TPP" and "TPA" and "FTA" and "TTIP" floating around. It doesn't have to be difficult, though. Watch Richard Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO, explain "fast...
by Robert Borosage | Feb 26, 2015 | Blog, Economy, Financial Reform
“Yellen Puts Fed on Path to Lift Rates,” reads the banner headline in the Wall Street Journal. The Federal Reserve's chair Janet Yellen is intimating that it might begin to lift interest rates in the middle of this year. If so, its decisions over the next year could...
by Terrance Heath | Feb 25, 2015 | Blog, Progressive Vision
Rahm Emanuel should be taking a victory lap now. Heading into yesterday's municipal elections, the Chicago mayor had everything an incumbent officeholder could wish for. He had money. Just as he parlayed his Washington connections into paying clients during two and a...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 25, 2015 | Blog, Financial Reform
In July 2010, President Obama signed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. Section 953(b) of that law directs the SEC to require public companies to disclose the median annual total compensation of all employees, the total annual compensation...
