by Dave Johnson | Jun 16, 2011 | Blog, Making it in America
I am participating on a panel tomorrow at Netroots Nation, Revitalizing Manufacturing: The Road to Renewed Job Growth. Please click here to submit questions for the Q&A session. The panel: FRIDAY, JUNE 17TH 3:00 PM - 4:15 PM The prospects of the U.S. innovating our...
by Leo Gerard | Jun 15, 2011 | Blog, Economy, Making it in America
Efforts by those who never want to hear someone say, “Bye-bye American manufacturing,” converged coincidentally to make June Buy American month. First, at the forceful urging of U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, the Smithsonian on June 8 opened an all-American-made...
by | Jun 14, 2011 | Blog, Making it in America
That’s the word I’d use to describe the recent leadership of both Political Parties on American jobs, and especially factory jobs. The only development on Monday more depressing than President Obama’s trip to an outsourcing manufacturer in North Carolina was the...
by Dave Johnson | Jun 8, 2011 | Blog, Economy, Making it in America
Our trade agreements have pitted working people in countries that do not protect rights or people against the working people here who fought to win the protections of democracy. The result has been devastating to our communities, our economy and our democracy. America...
by Isaiah J. Poole | May 23, 2011 | Blog, Economy, Making it in America
House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer laid out his bottom-line principles for how he believed the deficit should be addressed in a speech today before the Bipartisan Policy Institute. None of the five elements he listed address what voters say is the No. 1 economic problem:...
by Robert Borosage | May 17, 2011 | Blog, Financial Reform, Making it in America
Less than a week after launching his presidential campaign, Newt Gingrich's candidacy has already been declared "done" and "over" by conservative pundit Charles Krauthammer. Gingrich's mouth—always faster than his brain—has been gorging on his...
