by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 19, 2014 | Jobs and Growth, Tax Reform
On Wednesday the Obama administration came down firmly against giving corporations a repatriation tax holiday – a tax break to corporations for bringing back into the United States profits they stashed overseas to avoid taxation. That should be a fatal blow to a...
by Derek Pugh | Jun 19, 2014 | Jobs and Growth
Right now taxpayer dollars are not only being used to subsidize, but also expand, the low-wage economy on a massive scale. President Obama could sign an executive order today that would help halt wage theft and place over 20 million Americans on a pathway to the...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 18, 2014 | Jobs and Growth
A plan unveiled today in the Senate to raise enough money to keep the federal fund that pays for surface transportation projects from drying up within the next two months comes with a dollop of plain truth: "Congress should be embarrassed that it has played chicken...
by Emily DiVito | Jun 18, 2014 | Gender Justice, Jobs and Growth
Women represent 72 percent of all workers in tipped-wage jobs – those with a federal minimum wage of just $2.13 an hour. That means that women are disproportionately placed in the very compromising position of their having to please customers and impress employers in...
by Dave Johnson | Jun 17, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
Treasury Secretary Jack Lew (D-CITI) gave a major address on the economy last week at the New York Economic Club. (You can read the transcript orwatch the video.) He called the speech a "chance to discuss some of the challenges and opportunities we face." His speech...
by Richard Eskow | Jun 16, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
[fve]http://youtu.be/n1EDpE38-t0[/fve] AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka characterizes his vision of a progressive and populist-oriented labor coalition, not as a modern innovation, but as a return to labor’s roots. In an in-depth interview for The Zero Hour, Trumka...
