by Sam Pizzigati | Jun 17, 2014 | Blog, Economy
The go-to intellectual guardians of our corporate order — those conservative analysts whose op-eds appear regularly in the Wall Street Journal — have a problem. Their defense of plutocracy just isn’t selling. Two events this spring have now put this failure in...
by Dave Johnson | Jun 17, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
Treasury Secretary Jack Lew (D-CITI) gave a major address on the economy last week at the New York Economic Club. (You can read the transcript orwatch the video.) He called the speech a "chance to discuss some of the challenges and opportunities we face." His speech...
by Dave Johnson | Jun 16, 2014 | Blog, Economy
Here are some depressing statistics: In 2013, CEOs of S&P 500 companies made 331 times as much as their employees. Your average American worker not in a supervisory role made $35,239, while the average CEO made $11.7 million, according to the AFL-CIO Executive...
by Richard Eskow | Jun 16, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
[fve]http://youtu.be/n1EDpE38-t0[/fve] AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka characterizes his vision of a progressive and populist-oriented labor coalition, not as a modern innovation, but as a return to labor’s roots. In an in-depth interview for The Zero Hour, Trumka...
by Robert Borosage | Jun 16, 2014 | Blog, Economy
In the first six months of this year, Senate Republicans used the filibuster to block the Senate majority from increasing the minimum wage, providing paycheck fairness to women, and enabling those with student debt to refinance at lower rates, paid for by insuring...
by Terrance Heath | Jun 13, 2014 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
As House Minority Leader Eric Cantor exits stage right, it seems appropriate to recall some of his most memorable wingnut moments. And as David Bratt waits in the wings, it’s a good a time as any to consider that nights of wingnuttia he’s likely to reach. When Eric...
