by Jeff Bryant | Aug 28, 2014 | Blog, Education
This time of year, while classroom teachers and administrators in public schools are busy welcoming students back to a new school year and figuring out how they're going to cope with devastating financial constraints, advocates in the charter schools industry are...
by Robert Borosage | Aug 28, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth, Reviving Strong Unions
On Labor Day, families gather, politicians pay tribute to values of hard work, and some workers even get an extra day off. But this Labor Day arrives with working families struggling to stay afloat. Working family incomes haven’t gone up in the 21st century....
by Dave Johnson | Aug 27, 2014 | Blog
Amidst all the news about Burger King – another company renouncing its US "citizenship" to avoid paying taxes for the roads, courts, police and the rest of the government services that made them prosperous – an idea that Campaign for America's Future has been...
by Richard Eskow | Aug 27, 2014 | Blog, Health, Tax Reform
Our economy is broken. There’s one economy for the wealthy, and another for the rest of us. This division has been worsened by the behavior of corporate executives who manage their corporations for short-term personal gain rather than for long-term fiscal soundness....
by Dave Johnson | Aug 26, 2014 | Blog, Tax Reform
Burger King is the latest company announcing plans to renounce its U.S. citizenship in order to dodge taxes. It plans to buy Tim Hortons and then pretend Tim Hortons bought them so they can claim to be Canadian. (Tim Hortons renounced its own U.S. citizenship in 2009...
by Dave Johnson | Aug 25, 2014 | Blog, Trade
The International Trade Commission (ITC) ruled last week that South Korean companies are "dumping" steel pipes, tubes and fittings used by oil companies – known formally as oil country tubular goods (OCTG) – into the U.S. market. "Dumping" means selling for...
