by Dave Johnson | Jan 28, 2014 | Blog
You hear often that we "live in a global world now." You hear that "globalization" means we have to drop our wages and standards to match those in impoverished, Third-World countries. You hear that the "cost" of controlling pollution makes us uncompetitive in the...
by Richard Eskow | Jan 24, 2014 | Blog
What do you give a Wall Street CEO who has presided over a decade of fraud and criminality, who directly supervised a unit which lost $6 billion through incompetent and illegal trading, and whose reign of crime and mismanagement has cost his institution $20 billion in...
by Bill Scher | Jan 23, 2014 | Blog
If Mike Huckabee ever wants to meet Uncle Sugar, he need only look in the mirror. Earlier today, Huckabee invented quite the straw man in the not-so-controversial debate over the Obamacare provision requiring health insurers to cover contraception: "If the Democrats...
by Dave Johnson | Jan 23, 2014 | Blog
Republicans voted for a budget that caved in to many of their economy-sabotaging, hostage-ransom austerity demands. Now the "debt ceiling" has to be raised in February so the government can pay for that budget that Republicans voted for. Republicans are saying no way...
by Dave Johnson | Jan 22, 2014 | Blog
Republicans smell an election opportunity – but only if they can keep the economy down, jobs down and wages down. Most recently to keep people and the economy miserable they filibustered long-term unemployment assistance, and are working to cut back from the meager 26...
by Dave Johnson | Jan 21, 2014 | Blog
This morning's Alliance for American Manufacturing (AAM) AAM Early Shift Digest email asks, "What would a full-fledged manufacturing policy look like?" In this moment of calm, the Alliance for American Manufacturing (AAM) is getting its ducks in a row. This week we’re...
