Economy
OK Sen Shelby Lets Tell the Truth About Jobs and Regulations
The Republicans have opened another front in their neverending war against regulations, those tools that help government protect us from greedy corporations. Leading the charge once again is Sen. Richard Shelby, the willing servant of Wall Street who weakened the...
Can a Movement Save the American Dream
Co-written with Katrina vanden Heuvel. Originally published at The Nation. On October 3 activists from across the country will gather in Washington at the Take Back the American Dream conference, in the belief that only a citizens movement can save an American dream...
Wages of Fear Lockdowns and the IMF on Occupied Wall Street
I walked around lower Manhattan for a long time last Friday looking for the #OccupyWallStreet protests. It was an experiment: Had Mayor Bloomberg and the forces of "security" hidden the demonstrators so effectively that they couldn't be found, even if you went there...
Judging the Republican Debate With My Handy Bush-o-Meter
Watching the Republican presidential primary debate last night, I heard many of the candidates say they'd be the second coming of Ronald Reagan. But what they said sounded a lot more like the second coming of George W. Bush, he of the "worst jobs record on record"...
Oil-Backed Conservatives Try To Kill Green Jobs Effort
For more on how we can fight for green jobs, hear Rep. Chris Murphy, United Steelworkers' Leo Gerard, Alliance for American Manufacturing's Scott Paul and Leo Hindery, Jr. at the Oct. 3-5 Take Back the American Dream conference. Oil-backed Republicans are doing...
When Trade Is Out Of Balance Tariffs And Trade Enforcement Equals Jobs
A new report shows just how many jobs have been lost to "China’s currency manipulation, state-owned enterprises, heavy industrial subsidies, intellectual property theft and piracy, indigenous innovation policies, rare earth mineral export restrictions and other...
Obama Rejects Medicare Age Increase Stresses Jobs Fair Taxes
The Wall Street Journal and other media are reporting definitively on the Obama deficit plan to be announced on Monday. The big news: the President will not propose raising the Medicare eligibility age. So the millions of older workers and unemployed people now...
Five Super-Congress Debt-Cutting Myths
Ten years ago the country was on track to pay off the entire national debt in ... ten years. But then... So President Bush left behind a $1.4 trillion budget deficit, and now under President Obama the same Republicans who created the deficits are all terribly,...
Jobs Speech In A Democracy -- What Do Polls Show The Public Wants
As President Obama prepares to give a major speech on jobs before a joint session of Congress, what does the public think the country should do? The public wants jobs created to fix our crumbling infrastructure, paid for by tax increases on Wall Street and the...
Pelosi Says Demand Creates Jobs At Speakout For Good Jobs Event
"The way to create jobs is by paying a living wage to workers, That creates demand. Republicans say jobs from tax cuts for rich people." These were some of the remarks by Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi at a Speakout For Good Jobs Tour I attended last night. See the...
