by Robert Borosage | Apr 3, 2015 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
The monthly Bureau of Labor Statistics jobs report underwhelmed – a gain of 126,000 jobs, the weakest since December 2013 – with unemployment staying at 5.5 percent. Estimates for January and February were lowered, subtracting 69,000 jobs. Pundits blame it on the...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Apr 1, 2015 | Jobs and Growth
As the Obama administration sends to Congress its proposal for a six-year surface transportation spending plan, a new progressive think tank report exposes the fatal flaw in how it intends to pay for the plan. The $478 billion administration plan depends in part on...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Mar 31, 2015 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
Leaders of the "fight for $15" movement has set April 15 as the date for a nationwide strike to push for a living wage for all low-wage workers. This movement that started with fast-food workers in 2012 is now expanding to include a whole range of occupations, ranging...
by Leo Gerard | Mar 31, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism, Jobs and Growth, Trade
Sucker punched by massive, illegally subsidized imports, American steel producers laid off thousands of workers in bedrock communities from Ohio and Illinois to Texas and Alabama. That’s in just the past three months. The families of furloughed workers are struggling...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 30, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism, Jobs and Growth
We all know America's infrastructure is crumbling. Meanwhile, millions of people still need jobs. But in one more of many stunning examples of failure to govern, the Republican budget proposals cut back infrastructure funding even more. Tax cuts have resulted in years...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 27, 2015 | Blog, Jobs and Growth, Trade
The American steel industry is getting hammered, and not in a good way (as in good old American-made Kentucky Bourbon). Steel companies are laying off, and closing plants due to low-cost foreign imports. The Story Steel companies are getting hammered by low-priced...
