by Dave Johnson | Oct 22, 2013 | Jobs and Growth
No more cuts – the public is fed up. Democrats won the shutdown fight. Republicans lost and the public-at-large hates them and their ideas. There is no reason for Democrats to play on their playing field. Here is a guiding message Democrats should use from here on...
by Roger Hickey | Sep 27, 2013 | Jobs and Growth
Forty-one organizations, representing millions of Americans, have signed this letter to Congress, asking them to stand against those who would "hold our economy hostage in order to dictate the terms of the debate." See the list of signers below. Please read this...
by Robert Borosage | Sep 15, 2013 | Jobs and Growth
As we mark the fifth anniversary since the beginning of one of the worst financial crises in American history, the nation has yet to recover. Over 21 million people are in need of full-time work. Wages are stagnant. The too-big-to-fail banks are bigger and more...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Sep 12, 2013 | Jobs and Growth
Washington, D.C. mayor Vincent Gray has vetoed a bill that would require large, billion-dollar retailers like Walmart to pay their workers a living age, defined in the bill as at least $12.50 an hour. It is the latest development in a nationwide battle to end the...
by Richard Eskow | Sep 11, 2013 | Jobs and Growth
Five years after the financial crisis, it’s become increasingly apparent that the government didn’t rescue “the economy.” It rescued the wealthy, while doing far too little for everyone else. That didn’t happen by accident. Our government’s response was largely...
by Robert Borosage | Sep 6, 2013 | Jobs and Growth
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports the creation of 169,000 net new jobs with the unemployment rate “little changed” at 7.3 percent. However mediocre, these figures are likely to reconfirm the Federal Reserve's inclination to begin “tapering” back the $85 billion...
