by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 11, 2014 | Jobs and Growth
The next time you are stuck in traffic because a congestion-relieving road project has been placed on the back burner, or the next time you have to jam yourself on an overcrowded bus or rail car, consider the vote House Republicans cast Tuesday night to sharply limit...
by Robert Borosage | Jun 6, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
The May jobs report – 217,000 new jobs with unemployment rate unchanged at 6.3 percent – was largely as predicted. The U.S. economy has finally surpassed the peak jobs level reached before the Great Recession nearly five-and-one-half years later. The jobs growth is...
by Dave Johnson | Jun 5, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
Low-wage jobs are bad for America's economy. They drive a race to the bottom as people pull back, forcing more layoffs and wage cuts. But America has been replacing good-paying jobs with low-wage jobs for decades, and the wage differential goes to a few at the top....
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 3, 2014 | Jobs and Growth
A bipartisan group of senators led by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) plan a private meeting Wednesday to discuss options for funding future transportation projects, according to a spokesperson for the senator. Let's hope what they come up with something better than the...
by Leo Gerard | Jun 3, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce threw a little hissy fit last week, stomping its Gucci-shod feet over a new rule requiring corporations to report the difference in pay between their median workers and their CEOs. As usual, the navel-gazing Chamber got it all wrong. The...
by Robert Borosage | May 30, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
The U.S. economy contracted in the first three months of 2014, according to revised figures issued by the Commerce Department, down a “seasonally adjusted, annual rate” of 1 percent. With the economy expected to bounce back in the second quarter – April to June – the...
