Economy
Made in America: The Good And Bad News For A Jobs Recovery
Three important things happened in the last few days for manufacturing in America. Two are good. One is really really bad. The House passed good bills promoting American manufacturing, and the Joint Economic Committee released a new report finding that our...
Conservatives Are Clueless On Jobs
Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., is the Republican Party's latest effort at putting forward a credible economic ideologist. His recent interview with Ezra Klein reveals this effort as a complete failure. Ryan's views about the financial sector completely contradict his...
Exporting Jobs Is Not “Trade.” It Evades Democracy's Protections
We, the People have fought hard to build and strengthen our democracy. We built up laws and institutions and protections. It has been a particularly hard fight to build a middle class with weekends off, good wages, worker protections and some degree of protection of...
Economy Reality Check: Make Full Employment Job One
Washington is enmeshed in the economic version of the phony war. The two sides have declared war on one another, but neither has faced up to the fierce battles yet to come. Too few seem aware of the staggering challenges that face this country. Here is a summary of...
Shouldn't High Unemployment = Less Work To Do?
Simple question: have we reached a point where machines and computers leave us with less work to do? If so it can mean a lot of people are left without jobs and incomes, losing their homes and health, while the rest have our wages dragged ever downward. Or we can make...
More Than 500,000 Jobs Threatened By Congressional Inaction
Two reports released in the past 24 hours paint a dire picture of the consequences of congressional inaction. In just two sectors of the economy, local government and low-income people in welfare-to-work programs, more than 500,000 jobs could be lost in the coming...
Attention Sturgis Bikers: Your Sponsor, Harley-Davidson, Is Hoarding Cash And Killing Jobs
In two weeks at the 70th Annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, hundreds of thousands of bikers will have a chance to send a message to Harley-Davidson, Inc. and its fellow irresponsible corporations: Stop hoarding profits. Create jobs. Support America. Milwaukee-based...
Dear Mr. President: Time To Man Up
"It hurts me that they didn't even try to attempt to see what is happening here, they didn't care." Shirley Sherrod – on her forced resignation from the USDA within hours airing of a heavily edited video of Sherrod speaking at an NAACP event by right wing...
Wait 11 Years For A Jobs Recovery? I Don't Think So
Two depressing reports today show the depth of today's jobs emergency, both immediately and in the long term. The message that these two reports convey is clear: We are in a deeper hole than much of the rhetoric coming from either end of Pennsylvania Avenue suggests....
President Obama, Make Congress Stay In DC Until They Pass Jobs Legislation
The Constitution of the United States, Article II, Section 3: "He may, on extraordinary Occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them..." We have a jobs emergency and the Congress has not acted. Almost everything the Senate does is being blocked by an...
