Economy

The following is an excerpt from AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka's address to the United Steelworkers' convention on August 17, 2011. Click here for the full transcript. Brothers and sisters, most of us in this hall still have the good fortune to live a middle-class...

Well here's a shock. We know that after a year of shrieking about deficits, if Democrats propose anything that might actually create jobs the Republicans will have a hissy fit They don't care about the suffering of the people and they only believe in...

President Obama is, in the lingo of the day, “pivoting to jobs.” His bus tour through the Midwest began the process, with the president recycling his current jobs-lite agenda: payroll tax cut extended, infrastructure bank, trade deals, tax cuts for companies that hire...

My analysis of today’s new Bureau of Labor Statistics July data on state employment and jobs suggests that current labor market weakness could be far worse than believed. The BLS sample survey of business and government Establishments shows 31 states, D.C. and the...

Robert Reich will be a featured speaker at the Take Back the American Dream conference, convening in Washington D.C., from October 3 to 5. The following was originally published at RobertReich.com. The President is sounding like a fighter these days. He even says...

Here is everything you need to know about how to fix the deficits and jobs problems. This is a chart of job creation over the last few years: There is a report in Saturday's New York Times, "White House Debates Fight on Economy," saying the Obama administration is...

Rebuild The Dream As I wrote earlier in Ten Years Ago We Were Paying Off The Nation's Debt. But Then We Elected Obama., the The American Dream Movement is rolling out their Contract for the American Dream. The Tea-Party-fascinated press is largely ignoring this, but...

Today's jobs report from the Labor Department should not be spun as positive, even though at a net increase of 117,000 jobs it is better than the Wall Street consensus. While the White House may breathe a sign of relief that the numbers were not lower, one fundamental...

We said it first last week. Now, everyone is catching on: it’s (past) time for Congress and the Administration to pivot to a jobs agenda. While there are already pretty clear indications from recent polls that voters may forgive the gamesmanship on the debt ceiling,...

In the wake of a deal that included all the wrong things, today the President finally said all the right things. His agreement with the Republicans included no investment in economic growth, no job creation, no tax increases on the wealthy, no closing of corporate...