by Dave Johnson | Oct 31, 2013 | Blog
Manufacturing jobs (and, of course, the manufacturers) are so important to any economy. That's why countries like China go to such efforts to get them. But for some time our country has been neglecting this sector in favor of the financial sector. This week Senate...
by Leo Gerard | Oct 29, 2013 | Blog
Pope Francis has the antidote for what ails the United States. He gave the Catholic Church’s 1.2 billion followers a dose last week when he suspended the Bishop of Bling. The German bishop, Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst, bought himself a $20,000 bathtub while spending...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 29, 2013 | Blog
Amtrak doesn't "make money" so Republicans want to cut back on service to rural areas. This is America's ideological tension: democracy serves We the People, plutocracy and markets serve the people who have money. Of course you read Progressive Breakfast every morning...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 29, 2013 | Blog
You may have heard the early estimate putting the cost of the shutdown at $24 billion. Time's Swampland has the number, in Here’s How Much The Government Shutdown Cost The Economy. That was an early and very low estimate. It included, About $3.1 billion in lost...
by Bill Scher | Oct 28, 2013 | Blog
The immigration reform news of the day is that Sen. Marco Rubio's spokeperson told several news outlets that the senator does not support holding a House-Senate conference that would consider the Senate immigration bill for which, by the way, Rubio voted in support....
by Sam Pizzigati | Oct 27, 2013 | Blog
America's top execs don't have the time to celebrate. They're too busy waging a corporate holy war against what may be the most promising check yet on executive pay excess. In 1930, an obscure lawsuit against Bethlehem Steel unearthed a piece of corporate data that...
