by Dave Johnson | Sep 22, 2011 | Blog, Economy, Making it in America
For more on how we can fight for green jobs, hear Rep. Chris Murphy, United Steelworkers' Leo Gerard, Alliance for American Manufacturing's Scott Paul and Leo Hindery, Jr. at the Oct. 3-5 Take Back the American Dream conference. Oil-backed Republicans are doing...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 21, 2011 | Blog, Economy, Making it in America
A new report shows just how many jobs have been lost to "China’s currency manipulation, state-owned enterprises, heavy industrial subsidies, intellectual property theft and piracy, indigenous innovation policies, rare earth mineral export restrictions and other...
by Roger Hickey | Sep 19, 2011 | Blog, Economy
The Wall Street Journal and other media are reporting definitively on the Obama deficit plan to be announced on Monday. The big news: the President will not propose raising the Medicare eligibility age. So the millions of older workers and unemployed people now...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 19, 2011 | Blog, Economy
Ten years ago the country was on track to pay off the entire national debt in ... ten years. But then... So President Bush left behind a $1.4 trillion budget deficit, and now under President Obama the same Republicans who created the deficits are all terribly,...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 16, 2011 | Blog, Economy
As President Obama prepares to give a major speech on jobs before a joint session of Congress, what does the public think the country should do? The public wants jobs created to fix our crumbling infrastructure, paid for by tax increases on Wall Street and the...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 15, 2011 | Blog, Economy, Minimum Wage
"The way to create jobs is by paying a living wage to workers, That creates demand. Republicans say jobs from tax cuts for rich people." These were some of the remarks by Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi at a Speakout For Good Jobs Tour I attended last night. See the...
