"Words that make actions speak louder."
The impetus has been to deny or evade the connection between the Charleston, S.C. church shooting and America’s continuing legacy of racism and violence. And that isn’t just occurring among those on the right.
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.
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.
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.
An Inspector General’s report outlines how post officies could provide essential services to some 68 million Americans who don’t have a bank account or depend on check-cashing and payday lending outfits.
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.
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.
Economist Jared Bernstein disagrees with the administration’s decision to not address currency manipulation in the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement being negotiated with 11 other trading partners.
Voters support a role for the federal government “in ensuring that every person who wants to work has a job and a good standard of living,” according to a report by pollster Celinda Lake.
The struggles of central Baltimore communities that are now part of the national conversation highlight the urgency of a “Good Jobs for All” campaign that will be launched today by the Center for Community Change.