by Robert Borosage | Mar 7, 2014 | Jobs and Growth
The February Bureau of Labor Statistics jobs report – 175,000 new jobs with unemployment remaining at 6.7 percent – is better than many feared, but reveals a slow-growth economy that is failing to reach the more than 20 million Americans still in need of full-time...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 4, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
There have been strikes today in 190 cities with fast-food and other low-wage workers demanding $15 an hour and the right to unionize. At the same time, low-wage federal contract workers are demanding presidential action to win $15 and a union. It's not just fast-food...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 27, 2014 | Jobs and Growth
You may have heard about all the giant multinational corporations that have moved jobs, factories and profits out of the country in order to avoid paying the taxes they owe. You may have heard that we haven't been maintaining (never mind modernizing) our...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Feb 25, 2014 | Jobs and Growth
It was 95 years ago today that Oregon, faced with rapid adoption of a new contraption called the automobile, instituted a one-cent tax on gasoline to cover the cost of paved roads for these vehicles. The slogan supporters used to sell the tax: "Get Oregon Out Of The...
by Sam Pizzigati | Feb 17, 2014 | Jobs and Growth
The long days for GM’s flacks began — on an upbeat note — back in December when the automaker’s board of directors named Mary Barra, a veteran General Motors executive, the company’s new CEO. That announcement made instant international headlines. A major global...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Feb 12, 2014 | Jobs and Growth
In trying to do an end run around conservatives in Congress who are blocking adequate funding for badly needed improvements to our strained transportation networks and the jobs those improvements would create, is Congress and the Obama administration setting us up for...
