Working Life

One thing that is now clear is that Barack Obama’s charmed life is coming to an end. The press basically gave him a free ride until now…but check out this story in the L.A.Times–and expect to see more in the future: The drama began with a tiny ad in a local newspaper — a notice […]

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This is sad. So-called anti-war groups like MoveOn.Org and Win Without War are now abandoning the effort to cut off funding for the war–an effort that, in my humble opinion, is the best strategy to end the violence in Iraq and bring the troops home. This was first reported on Politico.com: Top House Democrats, working […]

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If you want to get a good encapsulated version of the moronic debate about the economy, you need not go any further than today’s editorial in The New York Times. The Times reflects the thinking of the elites, particularly the educated elites (read: New York Times reporters). The thinking in the editorial may, in fact […]

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If you are one of the 48 million Americans without health care, if your wages are barely rising or are stuck, if your debt level is crushing because you can’t keep up with the basic bills that pay for the rock bottom necessities of life, if you have no real retirement…hey, don’t worry because the […]

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Here are two related issues: the trade deficit and the announcement today that Chrysler was cutting 13,000 jobs. First, the record trade deficits (from The New York Times): WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 — The United States ran a record trade deficit in 2006 for the fifth consecutive year, the Census Bureau reported Tuesday in an announcement […]

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Well, I was just paraphrasing a good headline from the Economic Policy Institute (imagine that…a snappy headline from the staid but smart folks over there…keep it up). A few days ago, I wrote about the idiocy of the Senate linking tax cuts to a hike in the minimum wage. Max Sawicky at EPI had a […]

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This falls under the rubric of (a) how we can never trust Democrats to do the right thing unless we are willing to make them pay an electoral price and (b) how the power business has is so threatening to a politician that s/he will even break a campaign pledge to make sure that business […]

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In all the flurry last week about the health care reform alliance between Wal-Mart and labor, a little item slipped by: Wal-Mart settles ID racial harassment lawsuit THE ASSOCIATED PRESS — Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has agreed to pay $125,000 to settle a racial harassment and retaliation lawsuit stemming from a complaint by an Idaho employee, […]

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Because I am switching to a new computer over the weekend (not only that but abandoning my life-long PC habit for the Mac world), I’m just going to post briefly today and Sunday some things to read as food for thought: Today: the Economic Policy Institute had this to say about the rising trade deficits, […]

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Just thought I’d put up an open thread here to see what people think: will the Employee Free Choice Act become law anytime soon? So far, according to the AFL-CIO website, 232 House member have signed on as co-sponsors (by the way, the AFL-CIO section on this is very comprehensible and readable). What’s your reading […]

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