by Leo Gerard | Feb 23, 2016 | Blog, Jobs and Growth, Making it in America, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
In the week before Valentine’s Day, United Technologies expressed its love for its devoted Indiana employees, workers whose labor had kept the corporation profitable, by informing 2,100 of them at two facilities that it was shipping their factories, their jobs, their...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 23, 2016 | Blog, Economy, Election 2016, Jobs and Growth
"When you dare to do big things, big results should be expected. The Sanders program is big, and when you run it through a standard model, you get a big result."– James K. Galbraith Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders says he wants the American people to...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Feb 22, 2016 | Election 2016, Jobs and Growth
As both Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders seek to win African-American voters in South Carolina ahead of the Democratic primary, one issue demands their attention: double-digit unemployment in the African-American community in South Carolina and nationally. As we...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Feb 17, 2016 | Jobs and Growth
Wednesday marked the seventh anniversary of the passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act – the "stimulus bill" – and Vice President Joe Biden marked the anniversary with a visit to New Orleans to tout the legislation's success. The trip was also a...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Feb 16, 2016 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
It's a distressingly familiar story: African-American unemployment nationwide remains more than twice that of white people: In the fourth quarter of 2015, according to a recent analysis by the Economic Policy Institute using Labor Department data, unemployment among...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 16, 2016 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
With the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's death Saturday, the court's ideologically conservative 5-4 majority is no more. One big case this affects is Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, which the conservative ideological majority on the...
