by Isaiah J. Poole | Feb 6, 2015 | Jobs and Growth
The largely positive January jobs report – 257,000 new jobs created, and only a slight uptick in the unemployment to 5.7 percent due to more people coming into the job market – raises a key question: Can this fragile growth be protected from a Republican Congress that...
by Dave Johnson | Jan 30, 2015 | Blog, Jobs and Growth, Tax Reform
Senators Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) have teamed up and introduced a bill to let multinational corporations hiding profits in tax shelters off from paying most of the taxes they owe on those profits. In other words, they are offering companies a...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 29, 2015 | Jobs and Growth, Tax Reform
Details of the proposal by Sens. Rand Paul (R-Texas) and Barbara Boxer to raise money to pay for surface transportation projects though a corporate tax break scheme are now out – and they are as bad as many progressive tax reform advocates feared. This unlikely...
by Meghan Byrd | Jan 29, 2015 | Jobs and Growth
Conservatives in Congress this week launched a renewed effort to weaken the ability of workers to get justice in the workplace against anti-labor behavior by businesses. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) announced a bill...
by Jim Hightower | Jan 28, 2015 | Blog, Economy, Jobs and Growth, Minimum Wage
McDonald’s is scrambling, and I’m not talking about eggs. Your know your business has what image consultants call “quality perception issues” when your public relations team is fielding such questions as: “Does McDonald’s beef contain worms?” Thornier yet for the...
by Dean Baker | Jan 28, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism, Jobs and Growth, Retirement Security
The Republican Congress decided to make overhauling the Social Security disability program one of its first orders of business. On the first day of the new session it put in place a rule change that would make it difficult to address the shortfall the program is...
