by Dave Johnson | May 21, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth, Populist Majority, The New Populism
Word is there's an economic recovery going on. But approximately 99 percent of us have no reason to believe that. The public sees that the government bailed out the biggest banks and that the "recovery" is going really well for a very few people. But most Americans...
by Dave Johnson | May 12, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth, Winning Issues for 2014
The country needs jobs. The country needs to start fixing up its crumbling infrastructure. The country doesn't need more corporate tax breaks. Guess which of these three is in legislation the House is passing – unfortunately with help from many Democrats. If this...
by Sam Pizzigati | May 9, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
We may now be living in the golden age of executive-pay journalism. Nearly every day seems to bring still another story exposing the sheer lunacy of contemporary CEO compensation. In the last week alone we’ve learned that “pay for performance” has raised CEO earnings...
by Dave Johnson | May 8, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth, Minimum Wage
This week North Carolina's Tom Tillis won the state's primary to become the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate. Then he appeared on Chuck Todd's show on MSNBC and was asked about raising the federal minimum wage. Tillis replied with the standard Republican...
by Richard Eskow | May 7, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
Sometimes you have to step back a few paces to see how much conservatism has distorted the public debate. Case in point: employment. Somehow the right has managed to stigmatize public-sector jobs so effectively that only politicians of rare and admirable courage are...
by Isaiah J. Poole | May 7, 2014 | Jobs and Growth, Tax Reform
There is nothing fundamentally wrong with businesses receiving incentives to do the research and development that will lead to the products and services – and jobs – of the future. But the House is about to get it all wrong in today's vote for a research and...
