by Sam Pizzigati | Jul 16, 2019 | Blog, Economy, Featured, Inequality, Jobs and Growth
Have we hit peak decadence in the United States? Probably not. But we’re getting awfully close. The latest evidence just may be the “super-penthouse.” What exactly counts as a super-penthouse? Luxury analysts at List Sotheby’s International Realty have taken on the...
by Leo Gerard | Jul 12, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Future of Work, I Speak, International, Jobs and Growth, Koch Brothers
Leo Gerard, a longtime contributor to OurFuture, retires Monday after 54 years as a union man and 18 as the International President of United Steelworkers (USW). We thank Leo for his leadership and tireless efforts for working people around the world. I was raised in...
by Leo Gerard | May 17, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Future of Work, Health, Jobs and Growth
Last month, in a Pittsburgh parking lot following a conference on type one diabetes, three women stood crying. Two of them, mother and teenaged daughter, had just handed a stranger, 25-year-old Michelle, three shopping bags full of insulin pump supplies. Michelle was...
by Lenny Sanchez | May 8, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Future of Work, Jobs and Growth, Organizing, Protest
Today, I’m doing what Uber drivers all around the world are doing: I’m going on strike. I’m far from alone. What started on a Chicago streetcorner last September has blossomed into an international movement: we’re now joined by thousands of rideshare drivers - in New...
by Leo Gerard | May 1, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Future of Work, Jobs and Growth
Last year, on Halloween just before midnight, Frank Leasure left work at American Standard in Salem, Ohio. To get to his car in the employee lot, he had to walk across two sets of Norfolk Southern railroad tracks. He waited in frigid, driving rain for a westbound...
by Isaiah J. Poole | May 3, 2017 | Economy, Jobs and Growth, People's Budget
To people who argue that the resistance to President Trump amounts to protest without a plan, the Congressional Progressive Caucus has delivered a detailed and robust rebuke. Its fiscal 2018 budget proposal, subtitled "A Roadmap for the Resistance," is virtually a...
