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...
by Robert Borosage | Sep 5, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
The Labor Department's August jobs report – headlined by a disappointing creation of 142,000 new jobs with the unemployment rate “little changed” at 6.1 percent – reflects our reality: a sustained but far too slow economic recovery. The August jobs figure is below the...
by Richard Eskow | Sep 5, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth, Winning Issues for 2014
“We’re a movement now,” fast-food worker Latoya Caldwell said Wednesday of the effort by employees in her industry to raise their minimum wage to $15 per hour. That movement's latest action was a one-day strike which took place in 150 cities across the country on...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Sep 4, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
A lot of eyes will be on the Federal Reserve Friday when the Labor Department releases its August unemployment statistics. But where will the Fed's eyes be focused? A group of activists are planning the next steps of their effort to keep the Fed focused on the...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 4, 2014 | Blog, Trade
The U.S. Department of Commerce released the July U.S. trade figures this morning. We reached a new job-sucking record with China. If you are a Wall Street or Chinese billionaire it's an occasion to break out the champagne. However, if you are not a Wall Street or...
