by Bill Scher | Jul 11, 2014 | Blog
Speaker John Boehner, who has long said "the biggest impediment we have to immigration reform is that the American people don’t trust the president to enforce or implement the law that we may or may not pass," made an unusual comment yesterday. Asked at a press...
by Richard Eskow | Jul 11, 2014 | Blog, Financial Reform
Pop quiz: Which bank is widely considered too big to fail, needed (and got) a $45 billion government loan during the financial crisis, recently failed a stress test performed by the Federal Reserve – and has enjoyed a revolving-door relationship with both the Clinton...
by Dave Johnson | Jul 11, 2014 | Blog, Tax Reform
Here's the latest corporate tax scam: Companies are renouncing their U.S. corporate status and claiming that their headquarters are instead located in one or some other low-tax country, like Switzerland. The technical word for what they are doing is an "inversion." It...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jul 10, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
[fve]http://youtu.be/pqw3FFJjqHg[/fve] Trudy Goldberg, chair of the National Jobs For All Coalition, talks about the effort to build a full employment movement. When Chris Horton was asked to speak to a group of grassroots activists Wednesday at the opening of a...
by Dave Johnson | Jul 9, 2014 | Blog
As Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade negotiators meet in secret to try to conclude the agreement several members of Congress held a press conference on the steps of the U.S. Capitol Wednesday morning to press for labor, environmental, consumer, health and human...
by Dave Johnson | Jul 9, 2014 | Blog, Trade
Our enormous, humongous, continuing trade deficit dropped a bit in May from the month before, after five months of increases, according to the Commerce Department. The change was mostly because of an 11.3 percent increase in petroleum products and not so much because...
