by Sara Robinson | Nov 25, 2008 | Blog, Economy, Minimum Wage, Rick Perlstein
Oh, Lordy. It is that time again. Thursday is Thanksgiving— the official kickoff event of the 2008 holiday season. For a lot of progressives, these festivities also mean that we're about to spend more quality time with our conservative relatives over the next six...
by Alan Jenkins | Sep 19, 2008 | Blog, Economy
The challenges facing Americans today tend to be framed in the media and on the campaign trail as a daunting and often depressing laundry list of economic and social woes: home foreclosures and bank failures, rising health care costs and falling wages, underfunded...
by Terrance Heath | Sep 8, 2008 | Blog, Economy
Part One: Yours, Mine... One of the things I hoped for when Michelle Obama spoke at the Democratic convention, was that she would introduce people to the America that she came from, and that was the setting of her story. One of the biggest shames in the campaign...
by Bill Scher | Aug 28, 2008 | Blog, Economy
In all the buzz of ideas and activism going on outside the convention hall, the rise of green-collar jobs as a signature progressive idea is inescapable. With the potential to help solve our economic, environmental and national security weaknesses, investing in a...
by Bill Scher | Jul 1, 2008 | Blog, Economy
The McCain campaign gets ... stranger. The American economy has been battered on multiple fronts, including the loss of 3.4 million manufacturing jobs. The current trade strategy has not only contributed to the offshoring of jobs, but helped harm the lives of workers...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 19, 2008 | Blog, Economy
The Government Accountability Office gave American workers and the principle of fairness a victory when it ruled that that a multibillion-dollar Air Force tanker contract was improperly awarded to a consortium that included the French company EADS, makers of Airbus,...
