by Isaiah J. Poole | Oct 31, 2012 | Blog
Americans for Tax Fairness does a pretty devastating take-down of the group of CEOs who were at the New York Stock Exchange Thursday ringing the opening bell under the banner "Fix the Debt." Their picture makes the point: According to their researchers, here is what...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 29, 2012 | Blog
Mitt Romney told a lie Friday, scaring Ohio's Jeep workers with a claim that Jeep is shutting down US manufacturing and moving it to China. Now he is doubling down on this lie with a new ad. He is calculating that the lies will scare enough poorly-informed people to...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 25, 2012 | Blog
Right now a company named Sensata is moving equipment out of a factory in Freeport, Ill. and shipping it to a factory in China. Sensata will be laying off all of the American workers, but first they are making the workers train their Chinese replacements. The workers'...
by Terrance Heath | Oct 25, 2012 | Blog, Economy
Having entered the "closing argument" phase of the campaign, President Obama has pivoted to jobs. But as Bill Scher noted, the president's newly published jobs plan is cribbed from from policies that he's already proposed. President Obama has always enjoyed the...
by Jeff Bryant | Oct 25, 2012 | Blog, Education
Way back at the beginning of this summer, an eternity it seems in this exhausting presidential campaign, The College Board launched its Don’t Forget Ed campaign to "get the candidates to prioritize education this election." The campaign kicked off, according to an...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 25, 2012 | Blog
There were fourteen arrests today community supporters of the Sensata workers marched on the facility to demand a meeting with the manager of the plant. Arrested include Rev. Jesse Jackson, Bishop Tavis Grant, Rockford Alderman Victory Bell-Rockford, local community...