Three Charts to Email to Your Right-Wing Brother-In-Law -- Updated
Problem: Your right-wing brother-in-law is plugged into the FOX-Limbaugh lie machine, and keeps sending you emails about "Obama spending" and "Obama deficits" and how the "stimulus" just made things...
View ArticleAusterity Has Made Europe's Depression Longer Than in '30s
Europe's economic depression has now lasted longer than the Great Depression of the 1930s. Meanwhile, America's "Great Recession" also drags on thanks to cutbacks in government spending since the...
View ArticleWhy Fight For Unions? So We Can Fight An Economy Rigged Against Us
The other day I wrote about how FedEx has been pretending that their employees are not employees, which gets around labor standards for things like overtime, family leave and the rest.
View ArticleEric Cantor Goes To His Reward - If You Know What I Mean
Eric Cantor was a congressman from Virginia and was House majority leader. He was known for being particularly friendly to Wall Street and the giant, multinational corporations.
View ArticleWho Gets Rich Harvesting Burger King and the American Economy?
As fast-food workers across the country strike for decent pay, Burger King is still preparing to abandon the U.S. as its home country. How does a burger company get flipped like this and who gets rich...
View ArticleHelp Needed: ALEC & Grover on Diane Rehm tomorrow
ALEC & Grover will be on NPR's Diane Rehm radio show tomorrow. I'm asked to help get the word out about this to encourage people to call inHow fun would interrogating Grover on national radio be?
View Article2014 Election Lesson: Politics Is About Delivering For Your Constituents
Underneath it all, this election was a statement by people against an economy that is not working for them. Democrats failed to deliver a better economy and a better life for most people, and voters...
View ArticleDC Strikers Demand "More Than The Minimum" For Federal Workers
Five members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus joined government contract workers, who shared their struggles to make ends meet, to call for a higher minimum wage and allow the workers to unionize.
View ArticleGive Americans A $2000 Check From "Deferred" Corporate Taxes
U.S. multinational corporations are hoarding an estimated $2 trillion"offshore" to take advantage of a loophole in our tax laws. At our 35 percent top federal corporate tax rate, that represents up to...
View ArticleIs The Democratic Party Relevant Anymore?
Many Democrats examining what happened in the 2014 midterms are asking "what did the voters want?" But the right question is why did only 36.4 percent of potential voters bother to register and vote?...
View ArticleNationwide Fight for $15 Strikes Today In 190 Cities
There are strikes today in 190 cities with fast food workers demanding $15 an hour and the right to unionize. At the same time low-wage federal contract workers are demanding Presidential action to win...
View ArticleTPP Negotiators Hit With Protests, Media Doesn't Cover
Shouldn't it be a trade violation to threaten to move someone's job to another country? Shouldn't we negotiate trade agreements that increase people's wages on both sides of a trade border? These are...
View Article“Citibank Budget” Push Shows How “Fast Track” For Trade Deals Works
It is worth examining how the process was rigged to push that budget deal through Congress over the weekend that contained Citibank-written derivative deregulation and all kinds of other goodies for...
View ArticleRep. Alan Grayson Explains Trade Deficit Harm
If people come to understand and worry about the very real trade deficit, they will demand policies that are very good for regular, working people, and "Main Street" businesses that make or do things...
View ArticleWhat You Need To Know When Obama Talks Trade
To sell a new trade pact, President Obama's State of the Union address is expected to feature a small business that increased its exports after we signed the South Korea free trade agreement. What is...
View ArticleA "Grand Alliance" To Save Our Public Postal Service
The Conservative/Wall Street/1 Percent/Republican anti-government strategy is to set government up to fail (usually by starving it of funding). Then they point to the resulting "crisis" they created...
View ArticleThe Senate Blockbuster Showdown On Trade The Media Missed
Eight senators let the country know there is going to be a fight over fast track trade authority and the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Sen. Bernie Sanders said, "Enough is enough. This country now is in a...
View ArticleHow Our "Free Trade" Policies Kill Jobs
If people understood the trade deficit and the harm it does, they would demand that our politicians do something to fix it. And if that happened great things would happen for working people and our...
View ArticleNow We Know Why Huge TPP Trade Deal Is Kept Secret From The Public
A key section of the secret Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement has been leaked to the public. The New York Times has a major story on the contents of the leaked chapter and it's as bad as...
View ArticleObama To Visit Nike To Promote TPP. Wait, NIKE? Really?
In Nike, a company that grew by outsourcing jobs to overseas sweatshops, President Obama may well have found the perfect place to promote yet another job-destroying, billionaire-enriching trade deal....
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