by Isaiah J. Poole | Jul 10, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
[fve]http://youtu.be/pqw3FFJjqHg[/fve] Trudy Goldberg, chair of the National Jobs For All Coalition, talks about the effort to build a full employment movement. When Chris Horton was asked to speak to a group of grassroots activists Wednesday at the opening of a...
by Leo Gerard | Jul 8, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
Americans devoted Friday to celebrating independence. Flags and fireworks, picnics and pledges of allegiance abounded. But there's no liberty and justice for all if Americans aren't economically independent. Low wages, debts and dim prospects all subjugate. This is...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jul 3, 2014 | Jobs and Growth
The June jobs report that is getting so much positive spin does have a dark side that's getting remarkably little attention: There's little evidence of a summer construction boom. In fact, it's been a long time since there's been a dramatic uptick in construction...
by Robert Borosage | Jul 3, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
The June Bureau of Labor Services jobs report – a higher than expected increase of 288,000 jobs with the unemployment rate declining to 6.1% – provides a splash of good news, following the grim reality of an economy that actually contracted in the first quarter of the...
by Robert Borosage | Jul 2, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
The ruling of the Supreme Court’s conservative gang of five in Harris v. Quinn is a direct attack on the ability of workers to organize and bargain collectively. The ruling, in a case invented by the right-wing National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, is but...
by Editors | Jul 2, 2014 | Jobs and Growth
President Obama chose an aging bridge connecting Washington’s Georgetown neighborhood to the Northern Virginia suburbs on Tuesday to warn that Republicans in Congress are risking shutting down transportation projects around the country that employ millions of people...
