Category: Jobs and Growth
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Leaders Should Be Leading To Get The Transportation Investments We Need
It is indeed noteworthy that a bipartisan, six-year surface transportation bill is on its way to the full Senate. But the bill is being sent to the Senate with no guidance on how to pay for it.
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President Obama Should Make Rebuilding America His Legacy
Federal investment to rebuild America needs a champion. President Obama could give running room to the members of Congress and progressive activists with bold plans for the nation\’s infrastructure.
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The Fed Should Wait For Wages To Rise
Fed Chair Janet Yellen is expected on Wednesday to announce the latest verdict on if, and perhaps when, interest rates will begin to rise. The answer should be: when workers\’ wages rise.
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As a Bridge Crumbles, Congress Fumbles
A Congress gridlocked by conservative ideologues hit the equivalent of the snooze button on a surface transportation bill that would provide federal funding for the nation\’s bridges, roads and public transportation.
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The Infrastructure Spending-\’Good Jobs\’ Connection Is Under Attack
There is an intensifying fight over whether the jobs that our infrastructure spending creates should be \”good jobs\” with living wages and benefits or low-road jobs with declining wages.
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No, Boehner, Amtrak Funding-Derailment Link Is Not A Stupid Question
House Speaker John Boehner\’s protestation misses the larger point about the historic failure to invest properly in our passenger rail system, which affects Amtrak\’s ability to deploy safety systems quickly.
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The Price We Pay For Conservative Scorn Of Amtrak
An Amtrak train derails on its way through Philadelphia. A House appropriations subcommittee votes to cut federal funding for Amtrak by about 20 percent. Two dots conservatives don\’t want you to connect.
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You Don\’t Have To Sell Your Soul To Pay For Infrastructure
Anti-government conservative ideologues and their big-business benefactors have an interest in convincing people that privatization, privatization-lite and breaks for tax evaders are the only options worth discussing.
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For Infrastructure Week, A Progressive Call To Action
Progressive populists are going to have to get loud and get active – and this is a good week to do so. An adequately and honestly funded infrastructure plan is essential to a “jobs for all” agenda.
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Jobs Report: We\’re Still Feeling The Effects of Austerity
As has been true for the past few months, you have to get below the sunny top lines of the April jobs report to get the real story: We\’re still have a slack labor market, and right-wing austerity is the cause.