by Dave Johnson | Jun 2, 2014 | Blog, Trade
The House of Representatives last week passed H.R. 4660, a bill that includes funding for the office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR). This bill included an amendment (Amdt. 761), passed by voice vote, "to prohibit use of funds to negotiate an agreement that...
by Dave Johnson | Jun 2, 2014 | Blog, Trade
Last week 153 Democratic members of Congress – three-fourths of the Democrats in the House – signed a letter to U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Michael Froman demanding that trade negotiators focus first on protecting the rights of working people to organize before...
by Harvey J Kaye | Jun 2, 2014 | Blog, Progressive Vision
[fve]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiHcm5fnrgI[/fve] To my amazement, Varney & Co. of FOX Business News invited me on their show on Friday May 9 to talk about my new book "The Fight for the Four Freedoms: What Made FDR and the Greatest Generation Truly Great." I...
by Dean Baker | Jun 2, 2014 | Blog
Robert Samuelson is correct to point out that income inequality in the United States at present is not anything like what it was back in the 1920s because of the social welfare state. We have programs like Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and food stamps that are...
by Richard Eskow | Jun 2, 2014 | Blog
Conservatives in all corners of the globe must have felt their hearts sing, if only for a moment, when the Financial Times ran a piece entitled "Piketty findings undercut by errors." Sadly for them, the FT's claims proved untrue. But if you think that put an end to...
by Dave Johnson | Jun 2, 2014 | Blog
Believe it or not, all four of the statements below are currently being made in Congress and in the hallowed halls of elite opinion: “We’re broke” and we have to cut the budget. – House Speaker John Boehner. America just can't afford more government spending like...
