by Dave Johnson | Feb 10, 2011 | Blog, Economy, Making it in America
Summary Our present severe recession, though officially over, lends urgency to tackling U.S. trade issues. Without the announcement effect of a trade bill, manufacturers will continue to shutter factories and move production overseas. President Obama’s goal of...
by Robert Borosage | Feb 8, 2011 | Blog, Making it in America
The Democratic Leadership Council, according to press reports, is broke and closing its doors. For anyone who cares about working and poor people, this is a demise that should have come much sooner. The DLC -- Democrats for the Leisure Class, in Jesse Jackson's...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 4, 2011 | Blog, Economy, Making it in America
Today's monthly jobs report was odd. There were few new jobs, but the unemplopyment rate dropped again as even more people gave up looking for work. This month they blame the weather for the lack of government action on job-creation or helping state and local...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 1, 2011 | Blog, Making it in America
I want to bring attention to a post today,Balance Trade—Make Jobs, by Bill Parks. In the post Parks writes about the harm being caused by our trade imbalances: The U.S. trade deficit—like an infected appendix—not only won’t get better on its own, it will get worse....
by Dave Johnson | Jan 25, 2011 | Blog, Economy, Making it in America
Tonight, when President Obama gives his State of the Union address, he will be facing a nation that has millions of infrastructure jobs that need doing and millions of people out of work. The President is planning to address these two problems with a proposal to...
by | Jan 21, 2011 | Blog, Making it in America
There is no swifter way to alienate working class voters than to name an outsourcing CEO to lead your jobs strategy. Yet that’s exactly what President Obama is doing. General Electric CEO Jeffery Immelt has fooled the media and the White House into believing that he...
