by Dave Johnson | Jul 14, 2015 | Blog, Jobs and Growth, Tax Reform
Here comes the next big one. Now that the corporations have fast-track trade authority in the bag, they are trying to push a huge, huge tax giveaway through Congress. We have to get the word out so this doesn't just sneak through. We can't let them continue to rig the...
by Leo Gerard | Jul 14, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism, Jobs and Growth, This Is The GOP
Jeb! Bush, a boy born to wealth and privilege, whose family owns not a home but a compound of dwellings in Kennebunkport, Maine, and whose wife plunked down $25,600 for one pair of earrings, lectured last week that Americans should work longer hours. If Americans...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jul 10, 2015 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
Key Democrats in the Senate on Thursday worked to ratchet up the pressure on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, calling for him in a letter to move forward with a long-term transportation bill before federal authorization for the program expires at the end of the...
by Jacob Woocher | Jul 9, 2015 | Jobs and Growth
When Walmart kicked off its U.S. Manufacturing Summit on Tuesday, Walmart it posed as a friend of the American worker, a creator of U.S. jobs and a force for reducing inequality. But, as the American Manufacturing Association dutifully points out this week, we...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jul 7, 2015 | Blog, Jobs and Growth, Tax Reform
An outfit called Morning Consult created a minor ripple this week with a news story headlined "Voters Back White House Plan for Highway Funding." But, like all stories based on polls, it pays to know how the pollster asked the question. And in this case, if the goal...
by Leo Gerard | Jul 7, 2015 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
Businesses always find big bucks for the boss. He wants a raise; he gets it. No problem. For workers whose sweat of the brow produces profits, well, somehow there's never a cent for them. In fact, last week when President Obama proposed making more workers eligible...
