by Bill Scher | Jul 2, 2014 | Blog
Few noticed last week, but the Senate's leading advocate for climate action joined the Senate's leading advocate for coal on the Senate floor to sound the alarm that climate change is real and requires government action. Rhode Island's Sheldon Whitehouse, who goes to...
by Richard Eskow | Jul 2, 2014 | Blog, Progressive Vision, The New Populism
Well, now, this is interesting. Sen. Elizabeth Warren went to Kentucky to campaign for Allison Lundergan Grimes, the Democratic Secretary of State who’s looking to unseat Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. The Louisville Courier-Journal reported that “a wide...
by Leo Gerard | Jul 1, 2014 | Blog, Trade
In the depth of the recession, some foreign countries made a simple calculation. They’d subsidize their steel industries even though that violates international trade rules. It paid off by keeping their citizens employed, paid and fed. These countries banked on...
by Dave Johnson | Jun 30, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
In case you were wondering why it is so hard for regular working people to get ahead in our economy, look no further than today's Harris v. Quinn Supreme Court decision. In the usual 5-4 pattern, the corporate-conservatives on the Supreme Court struck another blow...
by Sam Pizzigati | Jun 30, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
The free market made us do it. Ask members of any American corporate board of directors why they pay their CEO so much and you’ll get some variation on this market-inevitability theme. To compete effectively in the world economy, Corporate America’s argument goes, we...
by Richard Eskow | Jun 30, 2014 | Blog, Economy, Gender Justice
The Prime Minister of Morocco recently compared women to “lanterns” or “chandeliers,” saying that “when women went to work outside, the light went out of their homes.” His remarks, which ran counter to Morocco’s constitutionally-guaranteed rights for women, promptly...
