by Editors | Sep 10, 2014 | Blog
The Heritage Foundation released a new Issue Brief this week: “Higher Fast-Food Wages: Higher Fast Food Prices”. Author James Sherk claims that if the minimum wage in the fast-food industry were to increase to $15 an hour, “the average fast-food restaurant would have...
by Richard Eskow | Sep 10, 2014 | Blog, Retirement Security, Winning Issues for 2014
A new poll confirms that voters don’t just want their Social Security benefits protected, they want them expanded – in overwhelming numbers, across geographical distances, and crossing all party lines. It’s not just “liberals” who feel that way. Three out of four...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 8, 2014 | Blog, Democracy
The Senate is scheduled to consider later today the Democracy For All Amendment to undo the damage the Republicans on the Supreme Court did with their Citizens United and other rulings that allow corporations and billionaires to purchase our elections. We the People...
by Sam Pizzigati | Sep 8, 2014 | Blog, Economy
Every three years, America’s Federal Reserve Board surveys just how well the nation’s families are doing economically. The Fed takes this surveying seriously. We’re not talking quickie public opinion polling here, several hundred dinner-time phone calls that last a...
by Richard Eskow | Sep 8, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth, Winning Issues for 2014
Investors got some great news last Friday, even as the report for job seekers was far worse than expected. August job figures came in far below economists’ expectations (which, even if reached, would have been insufficient to bring a swift end to our employment...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 5, 2014 | Blog, Trade
On Thursday the Department of Commerce's July trade figures were released. Our enormous, humongous trade deficit continued another month and we even had an all-time record trade deficit with China. Today the jobs report came out and America's manufacturing sector did...
