by Dave Johnson | Feb 19, 2015 | Blog, Financial Reform, Jobs and Growth
Contract talks between the American Postal Workers Union (APWU) and the U.S. Postal Service for a new contract start Thursday. Along with asking for fair wages and benefits, the APWU wants improvements in customer services, including postal banking. “There are two...
by Robert Reich | Feb 18, 2015 | Blog, Economy, Jobs and Growth, Trans-Pacific Partnership
Suppose that by enacting a particular law we’d increase the U.S.Gross Domestic Product. But almost all that growth would go to the richest 1 percent. The rest of us could buy some products cheaper than before. But those gains would be offset by losses of jobs and...
by Leo Gerard | Feb 17, 2015 | Blog, Jobs and Growth, Progressive Vision
The federal agency that investigates refinery catastrophes released its final report late last month on the massive fire, volatile vapor release and toxic smoke plume at Chevron’s Richmond, Calif., refinery in 2012 that imperiled 19 workers and sickened 15,000...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 13, 2015 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
[fve]http://youtu.be/5o6vJw9mkzU[/fve] The Conservative/Wall Street/1 Percent/Republican anti-government strategy is to set government up to fail (usually by starving it of funding). Then they point to the resulting "crisis" they created and say it proves that...
by Terrance Heath | Feb 12, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism, Economy, Health, Jobs and Growth
The president is right. Staples is cutting workers’ hours (and paychecks) to avoid providing health insurance. Shame on them, but that’s only half the story. Earlier this week, Buzzfeed reported that the office supply giant Staples Inc., has begun limiting part-time...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Feb 11, 2015 | Jobs and Growth
Unless progressives intervene, a scandalous corporate tax ripoff could gain some serious momentum on Capitol Hill today when President Obama's transportation secretary, Anthony Foxx, makes his scheduled appearance before the House Transportation and Infrastructure...
