by Eric Lotke | Feb 28, 2012 | Blog
The private prison industry is on the march. In recent months the industry moved to take over 24 state prisons in southern Florida and buy five prisons in Ohio. Now it’s making moves in Michigan. But the industry doesn’t always win. Resistance isn’t futile. The...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 28, 2012 | Blog
Who are the 1%? Who is getting rich exploiting the 99%? Meet the worst of the 1%. This is a series of 1-minute videos by Brave New Films. "The 1% in 1 Minute. These videos show the facts, plain and simple. Share them with your friends and family so Americans can...
by Leo Gerard | Feb 28, 2012 | Blog, Making it in America
There’s just something about manufacturing. Ask Rosie the Riveter. Ask the computer geeks and artists across America who create “Hacker Space” workshops to help each other invent and fabricate to their imaginations’ content. Yeah, it’s cool to make stuff. The “maker,”...
by Richard Eskow | Feb 28, 2012 | Blog
GE paid an effective tax rate of 2.3 percent or less over the past ten years. What did the government do for GE while it was paying little - and often no - taxes? Let's see: The government let it off with just a slap on the wrist - more than once - after it repeatedly...
by Sam Pizzigati | Feb 27, 2012 | Blog
If a blunder you committed cost your employer $4 million, how long would you stay employed? In America today, a CEO can cost his company $4 billion and still collect both a paycheck and a bonus. People in America get fired all the time. Break too many plates as a...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 27, 2012 | Blog, Making it in America
Again and again (and again and again) we hear -- and learn the hard way -- that our "keep government out of it" approach to economic and manufacturing policy is hurting us. The countries that see themselves as countries and therefore have national strategies -- where...
