by Dave Johnson | Jun 21, 2016 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
Our country needs to fix its infrastructure. With every bridge collapse, train derailment and water main breakage, this just becomes more and more obvious. The media exposes reason after reason after reason to do it, on OurFuture.org we write post after post about it,...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 14, 2016 | Jobs and Growth
When the Department of Labor released new rules that would require millions of lower-wage workers to be paid overtime for working more than 40 hours a week, a number of prominent nonprofit organizations – including some allies on the left – protested. That split gave...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 9, 2016 | Election 2016, Jobs and Growth
[fve]https://youtu.be/Y93WutGCyf4[/fve]Joseph Geevarghese, executive director of Good Jobs Nation, discusses the effort to get a $15 minimum wage plank written into the Democratic Party platform. As members of the Democratic Party platform committee entered the...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 7, 2016 | Conservatism, Jobs and Growth
House Speaker Paul Ryan ended up overshadowing his own efforts Tuesday to highlight the Republican Party's proposals for overhauling aid programs for low-income people by telling reporters that he was still planning to endorse and vote for a presidential candidate...
by Robert Borosage | Jun 3, 2016 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
The Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the economy added only a startling few 38,000 jobs in May, the weakest number in six years. The official unemployment rate declined dramatically to 4.7 percent, recording not new hiring but new...
by Courtney Freudenthal | Jun 2, 2016 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
From Congress to the presidential election, politicians are talking about working family issues. Progressives propose paid parental and medical leave, affordable child care and reliable scheduling; conservatives offer business-friendly "workplace flexibility" that...