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...
by Harvey J Kaye | Jun 29, 2014 | Blog, Progressive Vision
In his New York Times column last Friday, "The Spiritual Recession" (June 27, 2014), conservative David Brooks posed the same question he essentially first posed seventeen years ago in "A Return to National Greatness: A Manifesto for a Lost Creed" (Weekly Standard,...
by Terrance Heath | Jun 27, 2014 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
Mississippi Republican Sen. Thad Cochran defeated primary challenger Chris McDaniel with the help of black Democrats, and the tea party exploded with rage. Now, to quote Nina Simone, “Everybody Knows About Mississippi, Goddam!” It all started strangely enough. The...
