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...
by Robert Borosage | Oct 25, 2012 | Blog
"Sometimes the dreamers are the only realists" Sen. Paul Wellstone 10 years ago today, a phone call brought the unimaginable news: Paul Wellstone, his wife Sheila, his daughter Marcia, three staff aides and two pilots had died in a plane crash in northern Minnesota....
by Hugh Upton | Oct 25, 2012 | Blog
So, the president gave an off the record interview to the Des Moines Register in which he discussed the Grand Bargain. (The paper apparently pitched a fit after the fact and the campaign agreed to allow it to be published.) Q: Mr. President, we know that John Boehner...
