by Isaiah J. Poole | Apr 8, 2014 | Jobs and Growth, Minimum Wage
[fve]http://youtu.be/iAAJKKZOqDk[/fve] So what if big-box retailer Costco already pays its workers well above the minimum wage, the rhetoric from the crowd opposing a minimum wage increase goes. Costco is a special case, they say, with a business model and sales...
by Robert Borosage | Apr 4, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
The March jobs report – 192,000 jobs with the unemployment rate remaining at 6.7 percent – is simply more of the same: an economy growing too slowly to make a major dent in continued mass unemployment. This is the 49th straight month of private jobs creation, as the...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 4, 2014 | Better Off Budget, Blog, Jobs and Growth
It doesn't matter what Friday's report of the March job numbers shows. If you listed our national problems in order of priority and immediacy, jobs has to be at or near the top. While America's political, media and business elites are all doing fine in their personal...
by Derek Pugh | Apr 3, 2014 | Better Off Budget, Jobs and Growth
The House GOP has no qualms about letting the American people know they stand for the wealthy and big corporations over everyone else. Their latest budget proposal from Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) is bold and unapologetic in its testimony to who the Republican Party...
by Derek Pugh | Apr 3, 2014 | Better Off Budget, Jobs and Growth
[fve]http://youtu.be/Zv1pzXT20bU[/fve] Enthusiasm among young voters is at an all-time low. They rallied behind change in 2008 but have since steadily dropped off. But who can blame them? After enduring five long years of an anemic economy and lackluster economy many...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Apr 1, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
Rep. Paul Ryan, the chairman of the House Budget Committee, chose April 1 to release his latest Republican budget proposal. Once again, Americans are played the fools. The latest edition of "The Path to Prosperity," which is the title Ryan likes to use for his budget...
