by Danny Feingold | Sep 11, 2015 | Jobs and Growth
When California Governor Pat Brown helped create the modern University of California system in the early 1960s, he envisioned many things: a world-class structure of higher education, universal access to students from every background, a gateway to middle-class...
by Robert Reich | Sep 10, 2015 | Blog, Economy, Jobs and Growth
At a time many Republican presidential candidates and state legislators are furiously focusing on private morality – what people do in their bedrooms, contraception, abortion, gay marriage – America is experiencing a far more significant crisis in public morality....
by Leo Gerard | Sep 8, 2015 | Blog, Jobs and Growth, Progressive Vision
Instead of picnicking, Steelworkers in six states spent this Labor Day picketing the gates of a dozen Allegheny Technologies Inc. (ATI) specialty mills. These 2,200 Steelworkers are not on strike. They never even took a strike vote to threaten a walkout. ATI locked...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Sep 4, 2015 | Jobs and Growth
The National Law Journal this week posted an article that declared that unions received "an early Labor Day present" from the National Labor Relations Board: a memorandum from the board's general counsel that set standards for how union organizers could use online...
by Robert Borosage | Sep 4, 2015 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
Today’s Bureau of Labor Statistics job report – 173,000 jobs created in August with headline unemployment edging down to 5.1 percent – is strong enough to stoke the noisy debate over whether the Federal Reserve should begin to raise interest rates despite the turmoil...
by Emily Schwartz Greco | Sep 2, 2015 | Blog, Climate, Economy, Jobs and Growth
Oil permeates the whole economy. Even if you telework in a solar-powered home and tote your groceries home by bicycle, the price of petroleum affects what you spend on goods and services. This impact, of course, is uneven. The collapse from $105 per barrel last summer...
