by Dave Johnson | Nov 4, 2011 | Blog
At a meeting with bloggers before last week's Building The New Economy conference, AFL-CIO President Rich Trumka talked about how we have developed two economies, one real and one financial. As he said, originally the financial sector was designed to support the real...
by Mary Bottari | Nov 4, 2011 | Blog
The G-20 meeting in Cannes got underway yesterday. The sunny beach resort, playground to movie stars and media moguls was an odd choice for a somber G-20 meeting. As President Obama and Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner touched down in Air Force One, the Greek...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Nov 4, 2011 | Blog, Economy
On the morning after Senate Republicans blocked consideration of an infrastructure jobs bill, the Bureau of Labor Statistics is reporting that the economy created only 80,000 net jobs during the month of September. The unemployment rate is now 9 percent. The continued...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Nov 3, 2011 | Blog, Economy
A conservative minority in the Senate earlier today voted against allowing an infrastructure jobs bill to come to a floor vote, continuing a pattern of obstruction that has blocked every significant effort to get people working on the jobs that need to be done. The...
by Sam Pizzigati | Nov 3, 2011 | Blog
The power suits who run America's biggest corporations, a new Citizens for Tax Justice report shows, are sidestepping about half the taxes our basic tax code says they ought to be paying. Over a quarter century ago, in 1984, the Washington, D.C.-based Citizens for Tax...
