by Bill Scher | Aug 1, 2014 | Blog
In 2012, Republican state legislators scrambled to pass Voter ID laws in hopes of suppressing Democratic turnout. As I noted earlier this year in a Daily Caller essay, the strategy "backfired ... serving only to goad minority voters into making an extra effort to show...
by Dave Johnson | Aug 1, 2014 | Blog
The Labor Department reported today that 28,000 manufacturing jobs were added in July. The report added, "Job gains occurred in motor vehicles and parts (+15,000) and in furniture and related products (+3,000). Over the prior 12 months, manufacturing had added an...
by Terrance Heath | Aug 1, 2014 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
House Speaker John Boehner called Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's idea for passing immigration reform "Nutso." Maybe Boehner hasn't taken a good look at his own party. Then again, who can blame him? No doubt Boehner was stinging from his latest humiliating defeat....
by Roger Hickey | Aug 1, 2014 | Blog
Today's Bureau of Labor Statistics jobs report finds payroll employment increased by 209,000 in July, slightly slower growth than last month, and the unemployment rate ticked up slightly to 6.2 percent. Coming after this week’s GDP report that found the economy was...
by Richard Eskow | Aug 1, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
We recently interviewed Dean Baker, economist and co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, on the Federal Reserve’s response to recent economic developments. A clip of the interview can be found above. Highlights of the conversation included Baker’s...
by Dave Johnson | Jul 31, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
Saying that "taxpayer dollars should not reward corporations that break the law," President Obama on Thursday issued another executive order designed to help low-wage workers. In February the president issued an order that federal contractors pay their employees...
