"Words that make actions speak louder."
The rest of the world is realizing that extracting and burning fossil fuels as their main energy source is not a good, safe, sustainable and cost-effective approach, and is starting a transition to alternatives. This transition presents the biggest economic opportunity since possibly the industrial revolution itself, because in many ways it means rebuilding the […]
Speaking in Ohio today President Obama described his new jobs and economic programs. (Full text here.) The two major pieces of Mr. Obama’s package — expanding and making permanent a popular credit for businesses’ research and experimentation expenses, and allowing them to write off the full value of new equipment purchases immediately in 2011, have […]
President Obama unveiled a “Roads, Railways and Runways” infrastructure proposal today in Milwaukee. The proposal is for a six-year, $50 billion plan to create jobs by improving and expanding 150,000 miles of the nation’s roads, 4,000 miles of railways and 150 miles of runways. In addition, the president is proposing an infrastructure bank. According to […]
I am attending the National Clean Energy Summit 3.0: Investing in American Jobs conference in Last Vegas, hosted by Senator Harry Reid (who is spending the day here hosting this). The Summit is put on by the Center for American Progress Action Fund. This is a quick post, because I’m typing during the lunch break. […]
If you had a company and could make people work for free, keeping all the proceeds just for yourself, you might do that. If you could. What’s stopping you? There are plenty of unemployed people in the country and in the world – more every day thanks to population growth, and computers and machines doing […]
The stimulus worked but was not enough. Here is the result: This is known as “the scariest jobs chart,” from
“Who could have known?” That’s the cry from the big-corporate and DC elite as the economy and the environment and so many imporant things crash around us. (Around us, not them, they’re doing just fine and taking good care of each other.) Who could have known that 25%-per-year house price increases was a bubble? Who […]
Last weekend was the anniversary of Martin Luther King’s March on Washington For Jobs and Freedom, and Labor Day is next weekend. Last weekend Glenn Beck tried to hijack the MLK march anniversary in the name of the far right and their tea party noisemakers, but we know who has been on our side and […]
America was formed as a government of, by and for We, the People. It says so right in the first words of our Constitution. To get that Constitution we rebelled against the King and England’s aristocracy and their corporations, with their concentrated wealth and power. And we continued that fight and over time we extended […]
When we pack up a factory here — and all of its jobs and supply chain and its support/.maintenance structure — and send it all over there to a country that doesn’t have the wage and safety and environmental protections we have, just to save a bit of money today we are also sending them […]