by Isaiah J. Poole | Aug 8, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
You don't get to be an actor by being shy, so it should not have surprised me that Olivia Russell would do something attention-getting while she was serving me and a guest earlier this week at the Carolina Kitchen, a small chain restaurant in Washington's Brentwood...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Aug 7, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
The right-wing argument that we shouldn't increase the minimum wage because doing so especially hurts the job prospects of young and low-skilled workers is not standing up to scrutiny. The latest evidence comes from two University of Delaware economists who have...
by Dave Johnson | Aug 7, 2014 | Jobs and Growth
The U.S. Department of Commerce has released U.S. trade figures for June. The numbers show some improvement from the previous month, but the trade deficit is still humongous. The overall monthly U.S. international goods and services trade deficit declined 7% to $41.5...
by Editors | Aug 5, 2014 | Jobs and Growth
Cheryl Harrington’s story is the coveted “American Dream” story. She is the daughter of immigrant parents who set up two small bakeries in Boston, where she learned the business by spending almost every moment of her childhood helping to bake holiday cakes, pies and...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Aug 5, 2014 | Jobs and Growth
Rev. Reuben Eckles is worried about what the Federal Reserve is going to do next. He has a lot of reasons to, in fact – members of the New Day Christian Church in Wichita, Kan., where he is pastor. The decisions that Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen and her board of...
by Sam Pizzigati | Aug 4, 2014 | Blog, Economy, Jobs and Growth
The Commerce Department released some revised figures on America’s economy last week. Previous numbers, Commerce researchers noted, had overestimated the share of the nation’s income going to workers and underestimated the share going to America’s asset-rich....
