by Dave Johnson | Jan 17, 2014 | Blog
Guess who is one of the biggest employers of minimum-wage employees? Your own federal government. After years of "privatization" and outsourcing, the government now contracts out a lot of work to companies that pay really, really low wages for jobs that when they were...
by Bill Scher | Jan 16, 2014 | Blog
While President Obama's EPA is planning new regulations to cap carbon emissions from power plants, a sprawling grassroots "divestment" movement is pressuring fossil fuel companies from the bottom-up -- calling on individuals and institutions to dump their stocks in...
by Thom Hartmann | Jan 16, 2014 | Blog
We already knew that the Trans Pacific Partnership is a threat to our jobs, our civil rights, and our national sovereignty, and now we know it's also a danger to our environment. On Wednesday, Wikileaks published a leaked version of the environmental chapter of the...
by Dave Johnson | Jan 15, 2014 | Blog
I was on "The Nicole Sandler Show" recently talking about the one-sided trade agreements we've been tricked into and the damage they do to the economy. It's also quite entertaining. Seriously, it is. Bad puns, jokes and, of course, Nicole!!...
by Bill Scher | Jan 15, 2014 | Blog
The arrival of Center for American Progress founder John Podesta to the White House inner circle has kicked up buzz around what President Obama may do for the environment by executive order. As The Washington Post's Brad Plumer reminded us last month, Podesta was the...
by Trevor Davis | Jan 14, 2014 | Blog
Republicans must have gotten tired of being called the "do-nothing" Congress, given how in the past few days after their extended vacation they have gotten right to work. That is, if you count as "work" filing pointless legislation. There is Rep. Bill Cassidy [R-LA]...
