by Dave Johnson | Feb 7, 2014 | Blog
Today's jobs report has a bit of sort-of good news for manufacturing employment: 21,000 new jobs! At that rate President Obama ... won't ... make it to his goal of 1 million new manufacturing jobs in his second term. (Note: Passing Fast Track so the big corporations...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 6, 2014 | Blog
The U.S. Census Bureau’s Bureau of Economic Analysis released trade deficit figures for December, which also means we can add up the totals for 2013. Our "oil boom" lowered the total, but goods and services got worse, with our China problem setting another record. The...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 5, 2014 | Blog
On Tuesday the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a report saying 2 million-plus people who are only working in order to get health care will finally be able to leave those jobs thanks to the Affordable Care Act. This will open up badly needed jobs. The...
by Bill Scher | Feb 4, 2014 | Blog
[fve]https://youtu.be/Yn6KEKEQITg?t=1h33m[/fve] Watch Kirk Cameron make the anti-abortion pro-contraception case at the 01:33:00 mark above The number and rate of abortions dropped 13% during the first three years of President Barack Obama's term, concludes a new...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 4, 2014 | Blog
The State Department released an environmental impact report Friday saying, according to The Washington Post, "the proposed Keystone XL pipeline would be unlikely to alter global greenhouse gas emissions." The report triggered more than 275 protests in towns and...
by Leo Gerard | Feb 4, 2014 | Blog
For decades, college football players absorbed some pretty cheap shots from their schools and the NCAA. These athletes knew it wasn’t right that universities rescinded academic scholarships and refused to cover medical treatment for players permanently injured in...
