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 Long | Jan 24, 2014 | Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
The head of the Alliance for American Manufacturing, who has just coauthored a book that offers proposals for revitalizing American manufacturing, has added his voice to the broad coalition opposing the Trans-Pacific Partnership and calling on Congress to not...
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...
by Leo Gerard | Jan 14, 2014 | Making it in America
That giant sucking sound predicted by Ross Perot commenced 20 years ago last week. It is the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) vacuuming up U.S. jobs and depositing them in Mexico. Independent presidential candidate Perot was right. NAFTA swept U.S. industry...
