by Joshua Holland | Oct 9, 2014 | Blog
Washington greeted the latest jobs numbers with enthusiasm. In September, the unemployment rate fell below six percent for the first time since July, 2008. We’ve netted 2.64 million jobs over the past 12 months, and are on pace to add more jobs in 2014 than in any...
by Richard Eskow | Oct 9, 2014 | Blog, Progressive Vision
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio will receive the Progressive Champion Award at the Campaign for America's Future 2014 Awards Gala on Tuesday, October 14. See the awards gala page for information and tickets. Progressives who are elected to executive office have a...
by Bill Scher | Oct 8, 2014 | Blog
Nine years ago, textile CEO David Perdue probably didn't think he'd ever run for office. Which would explain why in a deposition he bluntly answered a question on outsourcing by saying, "Yeah, I spent most of my career doing that." But after it was uncovered last...
by Richard Eskow | Oct 8, 2014 | Blog, Financial Reform
A lawsuit currently being tried in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims argues that AIG shouldn’t have been treated any more harshly than Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, or any of the other institutions the government rescued. There’s merit to that argument. It goes on to...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Oct 7, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
Last week's report that the unemployment rate had fallen below 6 percent for the first time since July 2008 sparked a wave of optimistic talk about the job market regaining its health. Today comes the reality check: The Bureau of Labor Statistics' monthly report on...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 7, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
Amazon has passed along the following response to Monday's post, "Amazon Wage Theft Case Comes Before The Supreme Court": I saw your story mentioning Amazon today. I wanted you to have our statement. We have a longstanding practice of not commenting on pending...
