by Leo Gerard | Oct 9, 2012 | Blog
"I’m gonna float like a butterfly and sting like a bee; George can’t hit what his hands can’t see; Now you see me, now you don’t; He thinks he will, but I know he won’t." ~ Muhammad Ali At last week’s presidential debate, Mitt Romney floated like a butterfly and stung...
by Anne Thompson | Oct 8, 2012 | Blog, Minimum Wage
In yet another attack on the minimum wage, New York Times Economix blogger Casey Mulligan argues that the failure of part-time employment to continue to increase at the end of 2009 is proof that the July 2009 minimum wage increase prevented 800,000 part-time jobs from...
by Richard Eskow | Oct 8, 2012 | Blog
As the nation commemorates Christopher Columbus, let's not forget his 21st Century descendants: the multinational corporations who span the globe in search of wealth. Columbus is honored as an adventurer In the European-created nations of the New World. He's seen a...
by Richard Eskow | Oct 7, 2012 | Blog
The Bureau of Labor Statistics was created in 1884 by Chester Alan Arthur -- and now Jack Welch wants to see its birth certificate. President Arthur was a rock-ribbed Republican, a product of New York's Conkling political machine, but he was clearly a shifty...
by Bill Scher | Oct 5, 2012 | Blog
UPDATE: This post when originally published on Oct. 3 was a "Top 10" list. It has been expanded to include the new excuse: "Chicago" Rigged The Jobs Numbers. All the current polling has President Obama beating Mitt Romney and Republicans failing to take over the...
by Robert Borosage | Oct 5, 2012 | Blog, Economy
The September jobs report is more of the same. We witness slow growth, with job creation barely at levels needed to keep up with workforce growth. And the economy is headed into ever more severe headwinds – Europe’s recession is already reflected in manufacturing job...
