Working Life

I’ve been on this kick for a long time: education, unlike what Robert Reich and some other people preach, isn’t the solution for people who are trying to figure out how to contend with the economic future–it’s about corporate power and the battering of peoples’ standard of living, something getting another degree won’t solve. Our […]

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I’m not obsessed with Rep. William Jefferson but this story just keeps growing. First, the Democrats and Republicans united to demand that the F.B.I. return the documents seized in the raid on Jefferson’s office. At the same time, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi demanded that Jefferson resign his seat on the Ways and Means Committee–and […]

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Hmmm…this controversy about the FBI raid on Rep. William Jefferson’s office has now kept going for a third day. Thought it’s an interesting debate, this can’t be what the Democrats want–a focus on a raid on a Democrat who may be guilty of bribery. As I have said for many weeks, the Democrats are not […]

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Learn something new every day. As a commenter pointed out in yesterday’s post on the raid on Rep. William Jefferson’s office, one of the CAFTA 15, there is an issue of separation of powers here. In other words, the F.B.I., a part of the executive branch (The Justice Department), makes people of both parties nervous […]

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I’m the first to strongly believe that people are innocent until proven guilty and, certainly, the F.B.I. has been known to accuse people of wrongdoing and/or spy on people over the years who actually did no wrong. BUT…the case against one of the CAFTA 15, Rep. William Jefferson, is certainly picking up speed. The New […]

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I’m not sure when people in the Administration and pro-war Democrats will stop the charade of “government-making” in Iraq. It’s not working and it’s time to recognize that ad try to save lives by ending the occupation. The newest example is that of the approval of a government of Iraq–but even the rah-rah New York […]

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Not a shocking revelation… Study finds Wal-Mart contributes to poverty St. Louis Business Journal – A study focused on the effects of Wal-Mart stores on poverty rates found that an estimated 20,000 families nationwide have fallen below the official poverty line as a result of the chain’s expansion. ppp Wal-Mart Stores Inc., based in Bentonville, […]

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Melissa Bean, one of our CAFTA 15, held a fundraiser the other night. Some committed souls were on hand to greet her in the appropriate fashion. The picture says it all–that’s Melissa, drink in hand, chatting up some fatcat donor. Kudos to the person who managed to sneak the sign inside–and I most appreciate the […]

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We are all pretty familiar with the idea that the rich get most of the money in our society. Check out this fact from Lee Price at the Economic Policy Institute: When those families are ranked by the size of their wealth, however, the top 1%2 alone held $16.8 trillion in wealth, more than a […]

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Here’s a controversy to toss out. I’ve pondered this for some time but the transit workers strike and the penalty it got hit with makes me wonder about this again: what if unions didn’t have automatic dues check-off and instead were obligated to collect dues one-on-one from members? You’ll see below in the article in […]

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