by Dave Johnson | May 17, 2016 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
Flint, Michigan is this year's face of the infrastructure problem: Flint's (and many other cities') outdated water systems are literally poisoning people. All around us we see bridges and roads that are in (really) bad shape, aging and failing rail transit systems,...
by Isaiah J. Poole | May 13, 2016 | Jobs and Growth
An alarm bell went off this week about the state of the nation's infrastructure and what government inaction is costing every American household – but the news media seems to have hit the mute button on the alarm in the rush of wall-to-wall Donald Trump coverage. But...
by Courtney Freudenthal | May 12, 2016 | Election 2016, Jobs and Growth
Despite their generous philanthropy as they battle massive levels of student debt and a bleak job market, millennials are frequently misunderstood as narcissistic and social-media-obsessed. It might then come as a surprise that today’s young generation deeply cares...
by Leo Gerard | May 10, 2016 | Blog, Jobs and Growth, Trans-Pacific Partnership
On the fourth anniversary of the Korean trade deal, its lofty promises have been revealed as putrid pie in the sky: More jobs lost. No exports gained. Just like NAFTA, just like China’s entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO), free traders swore that the Korean...
by Bill Scher | May 6, 2016 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
[fve]https://youtu.be/HSEi0RXGVq8?t=10m8s[/fve] Donald Trump, being a politician, likes to say different things to different audiences. When he was running in the Republican primary, he rejected raising the minimum wage: "...wages [are] too high, we’re not going to be...
by Robert Borosage | May 6, 2016 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
The Bureau of Labor Statistics April jobs report – 160,000 jobs, unemployment stable at 5.0 percent – is cause for concern. Job growth lags the yearlong average of 232,000 per month, and is accompanied by downward revisions in the February and March totals. Both labor...
