by Dave Johnson | Aug 17, 2016 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
The Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors voted this week to endorse Silicon Valley Rising's City of San Jose Opportunity to Work Initiative. If passed by voters, the initiative would require employers to offer additional work hours to their part-time employees...
by Richard Eskow | Aug 15, 2016 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
Automation will undoubtedly transform the workforce, the economy, and society as a whole. Robotics, sophisticated "AI" software, and other technologies will cause lasting and profound changes in the future. But that's no reason to ignore the problems we're facing...
by Robert Borosage | Aug 12, 2016 | Blog, Economy, Election 2016, Jobs and Growth, Progressive Vision
This week, a policy debate threatened to break out in the presidential campaign. Amid the insults (“crooked Hillary,” “unfit Trump”), purblind lunacy and rolling scandals, invented and real, the two presidential candidates traveled to Michigan to lay out contrasting...
by Richard Eskow | Aug 12, 2016 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
A new economic working paper reinforces an important reality: We need more government spending to repair the economy for millions of working Americans. Unfortunately, our political debate is being held back by an economic myth – one that has yet to be challenged in...
by Dave Johnson | Aug 8, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, Election 2016, Jobs and Growth
When Republican candidate Donald Trump says we should keep jobs in the U.S., he doesn't mean what people think he means. He wants to make the U.S. just as low-wage as elsewhere, to be "competitive." Members of Michigan People's Campaign were among those in Detroit who...
by Leo Gerard | Aug 2, 2016 | Blog, Current Issues, Jobs and Growth, Trade
As Hillary Clinton’s "Blue Collar Bus Tour,” travels across Pennsylvania and Ohio, I want to tell you about two angry white men I met at the Democratic National Convention last week. The press would have you believe that all of the angry white men are Trump...
