by Isaiah J. Poole | Oct 29, 2014 | Conservatism, Jobs and Growth
Seven Republican governors who rode 2010s tea-party political wave into office, promising that their budget-slashing, tax-cutting and bowing to corporate interests would unleash economic prosperity, are now being judged harshly by voters now that their right-wing...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 27, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth, Trade
The White House unveiled new executive actions on Monday directing federal money toward new technologies, apprenticeship programs and competitions designed to assist small manufacturers. The idea is to make the U.S. a magnet for new jobs and investment. The new...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 24, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
The New York Times' David Brooks writes today in "The Working Nation": " Western economies delivered broad and growing prosperity for the middle class. This nurtured a general faith in political institutions and culminated in the democratic triumphalism of the 1990s."...
by Jim Hightower | Oct 23, 2014 | Blog, Economy, Jobs and Growth, Minimum Wage
Gosh, time flies when it’s pushed along by a jet stream of greed. It seems like only yesterday that Wal-Mart announced, with much self-congratulatory fanfare, that the super-rich retailing colossus wasn’t a scrooge after all. Indeed, while the world’s largest purveyor...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 23, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth, Trade
Massachusetts is awarding a contract to build rail cars to CNR Changchun Railway Vehicles, a Chinese state-owned company, a subordinate of China CNR Corporation Ltd. The company will do final assembly of the cars in Massachusetts. "This is the preeminent manufacturer...
by Lindsay Koshgarian | Oct 21, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
With the election nearing, Americans still know what they want: job creation. Unemployment is still elevated near 6 percent, and underemployment – including people who have given up looking for work, or who are working part-time when they want to be full-time – was...
