by Larry Cohen | Feb 5, 2014 | Economy, Trans-Pacific Partnership
What does a global economy mean? And who does it serve? These are the questions we need to ask as the United States seeks to negotiate new trade deals with Europe and Asia. Unfortunately, as 12 Pacific Rim nations race towards completing the Trans-Pacific Partnership...
by Sam Pizzigati | Feb 3, 2014 | Economy
America’s ongoing debate over economic inequality may be turning a new page. In the debate’s first chapter, starting in the 1980s, scholars, pundits, and policymakers did battle over whether the United States was becoming more unequal. We still have some “denialists”...
by Clyde Prestowitz | Jan 31, 2014 | Economy, The Jobs Challenge, Trans-Pacific Partnership
In his State of the Union message, President Obama suggested apprenticeships, tax reductions on new investments, and building new infrastructure as ways to increase jobs and reduce inequality in America. But he said virtually nothing about what is probably the single...
by Terrance Heath | Jan 30, 2014 | Economy, This Is The GOP
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., is caught in a time warp. During an appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Paul went back more than 20 years to the Clinton sex scandal in an attempt tot blunt Democrats’ claims that the GOP is waging a “war on women.” Following President...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 29, 2014 | Economy, Populist Majority, State of the Union
The latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released on Tuesday before President Obama's State of the Union address, and a Democracy Corps focus group polled during the speech, indicate that President Obama wins, and Democrats in Congress will win, with a progressive...
by Robert Borosage | Jan 29, 2014 | Economy, Progressive Vision, State of the Union
In a State of the Union address that lasted over an hour, President Obama called on Congress to raise the minimum wage, announced he would act immediately to issue an executive order lifting the lowest wages of government contract workers, and urged companies to join...
