by Leo Gerard | Jun 3, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce threw a little hissy fit last week, stomping its Gucci-shod feet over a new rule requiring corporations to report the difference in pay between their median workers and their CEOs. As usual, the navel-gazing Chamber got it all wrong. The...
by Bill Scher | Jun 3, 2014 | Blog, Climate
I've argued both here and at Real Clear Politics that the EPA climate regulations announced Monday, while critical to the planet, are politically treacherous for Democrats, especially this November when several Democrat-held Senate seats in coal and oil states are up...
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...
