by Isaiah J. Poole | Sep 23, 2013 | Making it in America, Trans-Pacific Partnership
Late last week a largely anonymous group of officials from several major world economies gathered in Washington, most likely in an office a short walk from the White House, to hammer out details of an agreement that is often described as "NAFTA on steroids." In other...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 17, 2013 | Making it in America, Trans-Pacific Partnership
The corporate push to get Congress to approve the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement is about to begin. Again and again we have been promised that these trade agreements "create jobs" and grow the economy. So do they? "Free-Trade" Claims Proponents of...
by Terrance Heath | Sep 5, 2013 | Economy, Making it in America, Minimum Wage
If you're like millions of Americans, Labor Day was an actual holiday. While you enjoyed a day off, Labor Day was just another workday for many of the low-wage workers who went on strike for livable wages in over 60 cities last week. According to a survey from...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 4, 2013 | Making it in America
The July trade report is out. Exports are rising, but imports are rising even more. So our vast, humongous, enormous, out-of-control trade deficit continues its upward trajectory, sucking more jobs and money from our economy. Our deficit with China, of course, is the...
by Dave Johnson | Aug 22, 2013 | Making it in America
We have to have things to sell to others to bring in the money to buy things from others. Detroit’s bankruptcy shows what happens when a country forgets that. I hosted a blogger call yesterday with Carl Pope and Scott Paul to discuss the new book ReMaking America. I...
by Dave Johnson | Aug 16, 2013 | Climate, Making it in America
America used to manufacture silicon chips. Now much of that industry has moved to China. Solar-panel manufacturing will be a huge industry of the future and America deserves to have a chunk of that industry and the jobs and income that industry will bring. But...
