by Bill Scher | Mar 28, 2016 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
Tenacity and flexibility is helping California workers get a raise. Despite labor activists having won an hourly minimum wage increase to $10 in the state three years ago, and despite the reluctance for another raise from Gov. Jerry Brown, a compromise between the...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Mar 17, 2016 | Conservatism, Jobs and Growth, People's Budget, Progressive Vision
[fve]https://youtu.be/hPrUKRNCptQ[/fve] The decision by the Federal Reserve on Wednesday to not increase interest rates right now beyond their current 0.25 to 0.5 percent range is a testament to the fragility of the slow economic recovery the United States is now...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Mar 15, 2016 | Blog, Democracy, Election 2016, Jobs and Growth
Polls are open Tuesday in four cities that are listed among the 10 "worst cities for black Americans" and two of "America's most segregated cities," according to reports published last year by 24/7 Wall St. The four worst cities for black people are all in Illinois....
by Isaiah J. Poole | Mar 10, 2016 | Blog, Jobs and Growth, People's Budget
Set aside for a moment concerns about political gridlock on Capitol Hill. Think about the actual gridlock that could await lawmakers and citizens on their way to Capitol Hill. Earlier in March, Washington area residents learned that one of the major bridges in the...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Mar 7, 2016 | Jobs and Growth, Progressive Vision
The conservative naysayers who predicted that New York City was going to fall into an economic abyss under the unapologetically progressive mayor Bill de Blasio are having to eat their words. The New York Times on Monday is the latest publication to find that New York...
by Robert Borosage | Mar 4, 2016 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
The monthly Bureau of Labor Statistics jobs report offered good news with 242,000 new jobs created in February, while headline unemployment remained at 4.9 percent. February marked a record 72 months of private sector jobs growth, with some 12.5 million more jobs now...
