by Dave Johnson | Dec 18, 2011 | Blog
Conservatives, their movement funded by big oil and king coal, constantly complain about "job-killing regulations." They say that the Environmental Protection Agency is pushing "socialism" because it wants to lower the amount of pollution that energy companies pump...
by Terrance Heath | Dec 16, 2011 | Blog
The sausage is nearly made. The deal is almost done. Shutdown has been averted. Again. For now. The process wasn't pretty, and progressives are justifiably disappointed that Democrats gave up on the millionaire's surtax — which had overwhelming public support, even...
by Dave Johnson | Dec 16, 2011 | Blog
Companies are always looking for ways to reduce the number of people they employ, and for ways to reduce the pay and benefits for the ones they keep. One way they have been doing this is to send jobs out of the country to places where the people don't have the...
by Dave Johnson | Dec 16, 2011 | Blog
What did people expect would happen when they voted for Reagan, Bush and other conservatives, or supported their policies? In the Holland (Michigan) Sentinel community columnist Ray Buursma writes, American workers got what they deserved. Some of the things he says...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Dec 16, 2011 | Blog
Keith Chatterton, a 61-year-old former salesman for a building components company, recently told the Syracuse Post-Standard that he hasn't had a steady job since 2008, even with "days scouring the Internet for openings, attending job fairs and support groups, trying...
