Category: Jobs and Growth
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The $3,400 \’Tax\’ You\’re Paying That The Media Decided Not To Talk About
Something that is costing each American family on average $3,400 a year is worth at least a few minutes of discussion – and that something is our inadequate national investment in our infrastructure.
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Kansas Republicans Again Stab Workers, And Democracy, In The Back
A bill just passed by the extreme conservative Kansas legislature prevents municipalities from clamping down on just-in-time work scheduling abuses by companies. It\’s a sign of an accelerating trend.
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An Economy Like It\’s 1999
Remembering the artist Prince and one of his greatest hits, \”1999,\” got us thinking: 1999 was actually a pretty good year for the U.S. economy. Is it too much to ask that we emulate what we got right back then?
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Fight for $15 Movement Confronts The Presidential Candidates
In New York, before the Democratic candidates get to their debate and the Republican candidates get to a major fundraiser, they have to get past the nationwide demonstrations of the Fight for $15 movement.
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On Equal Pay Day, We Could Use Some Sunshine
The Paycheck Fairness Act would bring wage inequities out of the shadows into the light of day, and empower its victims and the federal government to hold employers accountable.
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Privatization Panacea? It\’s Not Proving True For Some D.C. Bus Riders
A report that 95 percent of the D.C. Circulator buses that serve the downtown and tourist areas of the city have safety problems is held up as the latest example of the fallacy of privatization.
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Even Centrist Third Way Gets It: We Need To Spend Big On Infrastructure
Third Way is helping to mainstream the same kind of jumpstart in job-producing investment called for by presidential candidate Bernie Sanders and the Congressional Progressive Caucus.
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Stoke Job Growth Or Choke It? The GOP Makes The Wrong Choice Again
The People\’s Budget formally released this week by the Congressional Progressive Caucus is not a symbolic exercise. It is central to a debate that the country must have to challenge economic thinking in both political parties.
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The Economic Justice We Should Be Voting For
As primaries are held in cities that have some of the worst racial disparities in the country, is the key issue that Bernie Sanders is promising more than he can deliver, or is it that we as voters are not demanding enough?
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Why We Need The People\’s Budget\’s $1 Trillion Infrastructure Plan
The People\’s Budget includes a bold, $1 trillion plan over 10 years to invest in the nation\’s infrastructure. Here\’s why this part of the budget needs to be pushed into the center of the presidential campaign.