by Dave Johnson | Jul 31, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruled Tuesday that employees who work at McDonald's are employees who work for McDonald's. This is actually a big deal because it means that McDonald's' low-wage employees can start going after the larger company for issues...
by Dave Johnson | Jul 30, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
Did you know that companies are subsidized by our government when they move jobs and production facilities out of the country? A Senate bill to stop this tax break was filibustered Wednesday by Senate Republicans. Will we ever know which companies — and countries —...
by Sam Pizzigati | Jul 30, 2014 | Blog, Economy
One of America’s top apologists for our billionaire status quo has a rather daring new approach to defending inequality. He’s claiming to be an egalitarian. And not just any egalitarian. Tyler Cowen, the director of a Koch brother-backed academic center, is claiming...
by Dave Johnson | Jul 29, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
More than 200 low-wage federal contract employees in Washington D.C. went on strike on Tuesday morning and attended a Union Station rally to demand President Obama sign a "good jobs executive order." Participating were employees working at the Ronald Reagan Building,...
by Richard Eskow | Jul 29, 2014 | Blog, Retirement Security
Actuarial science is the art of prediction. And speaking of predictions, here’s one that hasn’t been wrong yet: No matter what new data emerges about Social Security and Medicare, the well-funded opponents of those two worthy programs will always insist that we’re on...
by Dave Johnson | Jul 28, 2014 | Blog, Trade
Should an iPhone made in China and sold in England be counted as a U.S.-made manufacturing export? If a sneaky new proposal to change the way our trade deficit is measured is allowed to sneak through, this is exactly what will happen. At Least We Know It's Enormous,...
