by Leo Gerard | Jan 13, 2015 | Blog, Economy, Jobs and Growth, Minimum Wage
The jobs report Friday set off cheering: a quarter million positions added in December; unemployment declining to 5.6 percent. This good news arrived amid a booming stock market and a third-quarter GDP report showing the strongest growth in 11 years. It’s all...
by Harvey J Kaye | Jan 12, 2015 | Blog, Economy, Progressive Vision
The Green Bay Packers defeated the Dallas Cowboys Sunday. As a dear friend of mine remarked in an email: "It's always nice when a collectively-owned team beats one owned by a greedy mega-capitalist, who's beloved by Chris Christie." So in that spirit, and given my...
by Alan Jenkins | Jan 7, 2015 | Blog, Economy, Progressive Vision
Open, inclusive communities free of discrimination are critical to our national success and central to our values of equal opportunity for all. Our country has made significant progress toward that goal, due in large part to the Fair Housing Act. But much work remains...
by Sam Pizzigati | Jan 5, 2015 | Blog, Economy
Imagine if we compared the world’s major developed nations on most all the yardsticks that define social health and decency, everything from average life expectancy and levels of trust to the incidence of teenage pregnancies and drug addiction. Suppose we also ranked...
by Bernie Horn | Jan 5, 2015 | Blog, Economy, Progressive Vision
To be a progressive is to seek new laws that advance economic and social justice for all. That endeavor was thoroughly frustrated by the last Congress, and the next one will be worse. On the federal level, progressives had to settle for President Obama’s executive...
by Lynne Stuart Parramore | Dec 22, 2014 | Blog, Economy
Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz has been writing about America’s economically divided society since the 1960s. His recent book,The Price of Inequality, argues that this division is holding the country back, a topic he has also explored in recent research supported by...
