by Dave Johnson | Mar 31, 2012 | Blog, Making it in America
You can sit on your couch and tweet things out there all day, but Twitter doesn't knock on doors, and Twitter really doesn't get in people's faces. The Should Be Made In America campaign shows how to get that done. And the big impact this campaign is already having...
by Richard Eskow | Mar 30, 2012 | Blog
Economic radical Paul Ryan has endorsed Mitt Romney, Romney's embraced the Ryan budget, and the House Republicans have voted to enact the Romney/Ryan vision of the future into law. Yet an eerie silence has settled over the vision itself: How would it affect our daily...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 30, 2012 | Blog
The "independent" audit of working conditions at Apple's Chinese manufacturing supply chain is out, and it is not good. Workers are being exploited in ways that violate human rights standards and laws, and letting them get away with this is costing us our own jobs....
by Jeff Bryant | Mar 29, 2012 | Blog, Education
Coming in over the transom this week, the ever-vigilant bloggers at Education Week's Politics K-12 who were camped out at hearings for the House Education and the Workforce Committee tweeted out that Rep. Judy Biggert from Illinois, "a moderate Republican," is...
by Richard Eskow | Mar 29, 2012 | Blog, Chained CPI
When millions of dollars are being pumped into Washington by anti-government and anti-tax ideologues, you're bound to find Democrats willing to play along. And when your Washington press corps can't be bothered to get even the smallest details right - well, that must...
by Sam Pizzigati | Mar 29, 2012 | Blog
Behind this week’s record-smashing $2 billion-plus sale of the Los Angeles Dodgers, a global economy that’s enriching only the world’s super rich The Los Angeles Dodgers didn’t win all that many baseball games in the eight years owner Frank McCourt signed the...
