"Words that make actions speak louder."
Weeks after a top White House official said no “serious economist” would consider 4 percent annual growth “within the realm of possibility,” we almost reached that during one quarter. What do we say now?
The Congressional Budget Office said that by ending the sequester federal spending caps, the economy would be able to add as many as 1.4 million additional jobs in 2016 and 2017. We need those jobs.
We are continuing to reap the consequences of the conservative obstruction in Congress that has blocked the critical policies we need for real job growth and robust recovery.
This time short-term congressional paralysis offers the chance to prevent a long-term disaster. Progressives gets three months to break the momentum of a corporate tax giveaway and get a better transportation bill.
When did it become OK to use savings from the Social Security trust fund – which people have paid into with their payroll taxes – to pay for transportation projects? To avoid the ire of Grover Norquist.
Venture capitalist Nick Hanauer has proposed a way for workers in the “gig economy” to have such benefits as a living wage, health insurance, paid vacations and sick leave, and retirement savings.
Unless progressives amp up the pressure over the next few weeks, we’re highly likely to end up with a bill that not only doesn’t meet all of our needs but covers its cost in horrendous ways.
Democrats should be championing tax reforms that call on multinational corporations to pay more, not less, of their profits toward the infrastructure and services that support their profit-making.
If the goal was to determine if voters back “the White House plan” for highway funding through corporate tax relief, the pollsters didn’t ask the right question. Here’s what they should have asked.
When CNBC released the results of its latest ratings of “top states for business,” the winner wasn’t one of the states where conservatives have cut government spending, lowered taxes on the wealthy and weakened unions.