by Dave Johnson | Apr 30, 2014 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
President Obama held a joint press conference on Sunday with Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak and was somewhat dismissive of critics of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a massive "trade" treaty currently being negotiated between the U.S. and Australia, Brunei,...
by Bill Scher | Apr 30, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth, Minimum Wage
Today at noon ET, the Senate is scheduled to vote on a bill to raise the hourly minimum wage to $10.10, and then index it to inflation. Actually, that's not quite right. The vote would allow the Senate to begin debate on the minimum wage bill. And if media reports are...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 29, 2014 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
There is a huge trade treaty coming that will completely change the relationship between giant corporations and governments around the world. So why is the American corporate media telling the public so little about the Trans-Pacific Partnership? The Trans-Pacific...
by Bill Scher | Apr 28, 2014 | Blog
As the Washington Post recently reported, fossil fuel interests led by the Koch Brothers are trying to repeal renewable energy mandates and nullify upcoming EPA climate regulations in 18 states, yet they haven't had a win in 17 of them. And Slate reports that Team...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 28, 2014 | Blog, Trade
I discussed the Trans-Pacific Partnership and what President Obama's trip to Asia could mean for American workers on "The Sunday Show with Philip Maldari" Sunday morning, on KPFA-FM in Berkeley, Calif. Listen to the full show here: With me on the show was Tim...
by Lynne Stuart Parramore | Apr 28, 2014 | Blog
Between the rampant legalized looting, an emergency manager thrust upon them, water turn-offs, threatened pensions, and darkened streets, the people of Detroit have been to hell and back. Now they can add grotesque racial insensivity from a newspaper editor to their...
