For a long time, a number of people–the Economic Policy Institute and yours truly–have pointed out that workers have not been getting much out of the rise in productivity. Today, The New York Times wakes up to that phenomena with a front-page story: With the economy beginning to slow, the current expansion has a chance […]
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The Beast Courts Dems
Posted on 27 August 2006.
Sometime ago, I wrote about the phenomena of the ties Democrats have to Wal-Mart. I still believe Democrats have no business cozying up to a company that is doing such damage to our country. But, Wal-Mart certainly isn’t giving up, as The Wall Street Journal reports. I’m reprinting the article, with some cuts (snips), because […]
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Wal-Mart Backs Out
Posted on 26 August 2006.
Good news on the turning-back-the Beast campaign–Wal-Mart has dropped its plans to open a store on Staten Island. While the real estate company that said it would develop the site claims it dropped the idea because of the costs to remove toxic chemicals, it’s more likely that Wal-Mart did not want to face the coalition […]
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Ignoring The Poor
Posted on 25 August 2006.
This isn’t surprising and something I’ve written about over the years. I’ll come back to this asap–when I’m not under the gun–but I thought people would want to read this, if you haven’t seen the report: Washington, D.C.: An analysis of the nation’s most important labor-market survey concludes that official estimates of the number of […]
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Kerry Knows Swiftboating
Posted on 24 August 2006.
Heck, if Kerry had the brains to attack George Bush’s swiftboat crowd this way, he would be president–after Herman Cain, a member of a Wal-Mart front group, wrote a column for a right wing website likening Democrats to Hezbollah terrorists, Kerry had this to say: “I won’t stand for the ‘Swiftboating’ of working people and […]
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NYCity Pensions Take II
Posted on 23 August 2006.
Sigh. Not that I expected the Times to adjust its coverage of the NY City pensions situation. But…can’t the reporters at least acknowledge that the serious fiscal situation cities and states are in come in large part from the shredding of a progressive taxation system, i.e., that the rich and corporations pay so little in […]
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Drug Companies Rake It In
Posted on 22 August 2006.
This report was actually out a week ago but I just came on it–it’s from the smart folks over at the Center for Economic and Policy Research: Pharmaceutical companies are making billions in excess profits under the new Medicare drug benefit, according to a report by the Center for Economic and Policy Research. In the […]
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The Missing NY Pension Issue
Posted on 21 August 2006.
Readers of this blog know that I’ve been quite positive about the pension reporting that usually is done by Mary Williams Walsh of The New York Times. Today, she has a lead front-page article (co-authored with Michael Cooper) with the scary headline “City Gets Sobering Look At Possible Pension Trouble.” The upshot of the article […]
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Janitors go To YouTube
Posted on 20 August 2006.
Hey, everyone’s using YouTube to get the message out. The janitors get into the game.
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