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...
by Jeff Bryant | Jul 9, 2014 | Blog, Education, Winning Issues for 2014
Political pundits who try to tamp down talk of divisions within the Democratic Party must not be paying any attention to education policy. For quite some time, close observers of the nation's education policy have been calling attention to the fault lines between...
by Sam Pizzigati | Jul 9, 2014 | Blog
Almost everyone knows how Al Capone went down. We’ve seen the movies. The biggest and baddest gangster in American history extorted and murdered for years. But the feds could never convict him on anything, until the green eyeshade guys went to work. They finally...
