by Dave Johnson | May 31, 2016 | Blog, Economy, Jobs and Growth, Progressive Vision
The long Verizon strike has ended, and the unions won. This means that the American middle class won, too. Verizon is an extremely profitable company. But even with massive, astonishing profits the company was demanding that its workers provide givebacks, allow...
by Dave Johnson | May 27, 2016 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
[fve]https://youtu.be/q6qvdDacozM[/fve] NOTE: Shortly after this article was posted, news broke of a settlement in the strike between Verizon and workers represented by the Communications Workers of America and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers....
by Courtney Freudenthal | May 25, 2016 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
As a Class of 2015 graduate from the University of Chicago, Brianna Tong considers herself fortunate. She has a job that she loves that makes her degree worth attaining – as a lead organizer with the IIRON Student Network. But her work puts her in contact with plenty...
by Dave Johnson | May 20, 2016 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
Here we are in "Infrastructure Week" and here we are with a new argument for a massive infrastructure investment project – worldwide. Last week Peter Coy wrote at Bloomberg, in "How to Pull the World Economy Out of Its Rut," about economist Larry Summers' argument...
by Dave Johnson | May 18, 2016 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
[fve]https://youtu.be/UFJaDm720FU[/fve] Overtime pay for working more than 40 hours a week is a right that had been taken away from many workers, but now they are getting the right back, thanks to a new rule the Obama administration issued Wednesday. This is a big,...
by Isaiah J. Poole | May 17, 2016 | Blog, Economy, Jobs and Growth
[fve]https://youtu.be/6QHVgfIGync[/fve] Donna Mossman remembers the day, back in the 1970s living with her parents in an apartment in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y., that water cascaded through the living room wall. Looking back, that was a...