by Dave Johnson | Feb 26, 2014 | China Currency Showdown, Trade
The United States could create up to 5.8 million new jobs, reduce our trade deficits by up to $500 billion per year by 2015 and increase U.S. gross domestic product by up to $720 billion per year if we act to end global currency manipulation. Simple as that....
by Dave Johnson | Feb 26, 2014 | Making it in America, Trade
Bloomberg News has a great report on the pressure to ban "Buy America" procurement policies in the trade agreements the United States is currently negotiating. Bloomberg focuses on an Oregon company making streetcars to show the damage that banning Buy America...
by Digby | Jan 27, 2014 | Economy, Making it in America, Minimum Wage, Progressive Vision, The Jobs Challenge
Responding to the depressing news that the administration has succumbed to elite pressure to "tone down" the rhetoric about wealth inequality, Damon Silvers, special counsel for the AFL-CIO, points out the uncomfortable truth: [T]he president faces a choice of...
by Richard Eskow | Jan 24, 2014 | Making it in America, Trans-Pacific Partnership
The “TPP,” or Trans-Pacific Partnership, is our nation’s newest proposed trade deal. It was negotiated without democratic input, and they’re trying to ram it through Congress the same way. Like NAFTA before it, the TPP would kill jobs. It would also cause lasting harm...
by Dave Johnson | Jan 22, 2014 | Making it in America
The Hill reports that the White House is pushing hard for "fast track" trade promotion authority, to help push through the Trans-Pacific Partnership and other upcoming "trade" agreements. Meanwhile the yearly trade deficit resulting from previous trade agreements will...
by Terrance Heath | Jan 17, 2014 | Conservatism, Economy, Making it in America
Bucking the conservative tendency to blame and punish the poor, and the trend towards criminalizing homelessness, Utah has come up with simple, cost-effective solution for homelessness. Earlier this month, Hawaii State representative Tom Bower (D) began walking the...
