by Bill Scher | Oct 17, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
In 2012, Republicans nominated for president a private equity firm CEO with a record of outsourcing jobs. It did not go well. [fve]http://youtu.be/Ud3mMj0AZZk[/fve] In several states for the 2014 midterm elections, Republicans have done it again. And it may cost them...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Oct 16, 2014 | Jobs and Growth
[fve]http://youtu.be/QwNRwWLKLIo[/fve] Several dozen demonstrators went to the offices of the Walton Family Foundation, the charitable giving arm of the family that owns a majority share of Walmart, on Thursday to say that Walmart should treat its workers more...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 16, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth, Trade
Here are two contrasting infrastructure stories to following up on yesterday’s post, "Investment In Infrastructure Would Cure Today’s Slow Growth Problem": The U.S. has deferred maintaining (never mind modernizing) our infrastructure for so long (since the Reagan tax...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 15, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
What's going on with the stock market? Here's one piece of it. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) issued its World Economic Outlook last week, titled "Global Growth Disappoints, Pace of Recovery Uneven and Country-Specific." The title gives away the IMF's economic...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Oct 10, 2014 | Jobs and Growth
Advocates for workers have declared today "Minimum Wage Day," as the 10th day of the 10th month calls attention to the demand for an increase in the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour, from the current $7.25. House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi marked the day by calling...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Oct 8, 2014 | Jobs and Growth
The deficit scolds are getting what they wanted: Today the Congressional Budget Office announced that the federal deficit for this fiscal year is the lowest it has been for any year in the Obama presidency – $486 billion, or 2.8 percent of the nation's gross domestic...
