by Dave Johnson | Nov 13, 2014 | Blog, Trade
Democrats failed to provide relief or even offer hope to people who haven't seen their pay go up for years – and Democrats paid for it in last week's elections. This week, President Obama is in Asia pushing yet another job-killing, "NAFTA-style" trade agreement. Is...
by Dave Johnson | Nov 12, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
"No matter what you do for a living, you need a transportation system that functions, that’s safe and reliable." Ed Wytkind is President of the Transportation Trades Department of the AFL-CIO. That's a tough job right now because the country has backed off on funding...
by Robert Reich | Nov 12, 2014 | Blog, Progressive Vision
The President blames himself for the Democrat’s big losses Election Day. “We have not been successful in going out there and letting people know what it is that we’re trying to do and why this is the right direction,” he said Sunday. In other words, he didn’t...
by Robert Borosage | Nov 12, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
The defining issue is this country remains how to make this economy work for working people. A sensible first step must be to put government on the side of good employers and their workers, rather than subsidizing exploitative employers. Earlier this week, the...
by Dave Johnson | Nov 12, 2014 | Blog, Financial Reform
The 2010 Dodd-Frank law required the Securities and Exchange Commission to write "clawback" rules that make CEOs return compensation they receive when the money is earned through accounting gimmicks and not through actual performance. The SEC still has not done this....
by Bill Scher | Nov 11, 2014 | Blog
Two House Republican incumbents lost last week. One was Rep. Lee Terry, who represents Omaha, Nebraska. Terry couldn't escape his glib reaction to last year's government shutdown. When asked if he should keep getting paid while the government was closed, he said "Dang...
