by Richard Eskow | Apr 19, 2012 | Blog
Picture this: You're driving down the road one rainy day as someone bearing an uncanny resemblance to Mitt Romney approaches you from the other direction in a Cadillac. One of you hydroplanes and there's a collision. After both of you have confirmed that nobody's hurt...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 19, 2012 | Blog
The 99% Spring movement is starting to make itself heard at corporate shareholder meetings around the country. And next week it really gets started and will be big. (I'll be reporting from the GE shareholder meeting next week in Detroit.) Did you know that shareholder...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 19, 2012 | Blog, Making it in America
When President Nixon went to China in 1972, manufacturing was 22 percent of the nation's economy. It was still 20 percent of the nation's economy eight years later when China was granted most-favored-nation trading status. We're all too familiar with how the story of...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 19, 2012 | Blog, Economy
Congressman Raul Grijalva has introduced The Border Infrastructure and Jobs Act of 2011. (Fronteriza Y Trabajos 2011.) According to the Nogales International, this is a bill to "strengthen cross-border trade; modernize and expand border transportation; adequately...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 19, 2012 | Blog
Good Lord, what is the matter with people? There are millions of jobs that need doing, and millions of unemployed. How hard is it to figure out what to do? Next up before the Senate is an infrastructure bill. It's simple, $60 billion to repair aging infrastructure....
by Farbod Kadkhoda | Apr 19, 2012 | Blog, Economy
Just as public works projects launched by FDR put millions of unemployed people to work during the Great Depression, the Obama administration has pushed to invest billions in public works projects to create jobs for millions of today’s unemployed. But many of the...
