By Leo Gerard – OurFuture.org
Efforts by those who never want to hear someone say, “Bye-bye American manufacturing,” converged coincidentally to make June Buy American month.
First, at the forceful urging of U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, the Smithsonian … Read more »
From Afer.org
Today, Theodore B. Olson of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, lead co-counsel for the American Foundation for Equal Rights and the country’s most prominent challenge to bans on marriage for gay and lesbian Americans, issued the following statement … Read more »
By Paul Krugman – NY Times.
Every once in a while a politician comes up with an idea that’s so bad, so wrongheaded, that you’re almost grateful. For really bad ideas can help illustrate the extent to which policy discourse … Read more »
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By Paul Krugman – New York Times.
The latest economic data have dashed any hope of a quick end to America’s job drought, which has already gone on so long that the average unemployed American has been out of work … Read more »
By Robert Borosage – OurFuture.org
Twenty-five million people are in need of full-time work. This is a human, social and economic calamity; it cannot become the “new normal.” It translates into despair for the young who are left out, broken … Read more »
By Mike Lux – HuffingtonPost.com
The terrible wrongness of the Ryan budget plan combined with the strangest, craziest Republican presidential candidate field ever makes it rather obvious how important it is to get President Obama re-elected. To have extreme right … Read more »
By Justin Gillis, The New York Times.
The dun wheat field spreading out at Ravi P. Singh’s feet offered a possible clue to human destiny. Baked by a desert sun and deliberately starved of water, the plants were parched and … Read more »
By Robert Reich, Robert Reich’s Blog
The silence is deafening. While the rest of the nation is heading back toward a double dip, Washington continues to obsess about future budget deficits. Why?
Republicans don’t want to do anything about jobs … Read more »
By PETER A. DIAMOND – New York Times.
Lexington, Mass.
LAST October, I won the Nobel Prize in economics for my work on unemployment and the labor market. But I am unqualified to serve on the board of the Federal … Read more »
