Working Life

Yesterday was Equal Pay Day—not a celebratory day but a time, again, to raise a stink that there is still a significant pay gap between men and women in our country: on average in 2018, women were paid 22.6 percent less than men. I talk more about gender pay discrimination with economist Elise Gould. I, […]

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Republican Steve King is a racist, a despicable politician who fans the flames of hatred and division aiming mainly at immigrants. So, I welcomed to the show J.D. Scholten, the progressive Democrat who is aiming to take this guy down in November in the race for Iowa’s 4th Congressional district. Kimberly Ellis comes back to […]

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Republicans tried all sorts of tricks in their tax scam bill to target taxpayers in Democratic states, including messing with the deduction for local and state income and property taxes…except we’re smarter than they are—at least Dean Baker is. As I find out in my chat with him, Dean has found a way to keep […]

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Remember the election for the Democratic California state party chair? It has stayed sleazy. I circle back with progressive chair candidate Kimberly Ellis to hear the latest—sexism, racism and just plain bully tactics are still the order of the day. Then, just two weeks after I talked about a big-time corporate fleecing of taxpayers in […]

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Day two on the voyage is Martin Luther King’s  Birthday. It’s actually, traditionally, been a service day in Iowa when people go to churches, community centers and the like to volunteer—but campaign events per se are light. Bernie arrives tomorrow in the state for a series of rallies starting in Fort Dodge. I’ll be there. […]

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begin today a three-week road trip for Bernie speaking for him in Iowa, then, Nevada for a few days in the rural areas around Reno, back to Iowa for the final week, then, the day after the Iowa caucuses headed to New Hampshire. I’m hoping to do at least one report per day but, you […]

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Forget what you read from this day on about the polls and the pundits and the status quo rhetoric. It’s over in Iowa and New Hampshire…and the status quo knows it. The Moveon endorsement—which VL Baker write about here—coupled with the enthusiasm we’ve already seen on the ground in Iowa for many weeks, which I […]

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  This Week in Bigotry In an attempt to "rebrand" Arizona, whose recent immigration law has been called racist, Governor Jan Brewer bans teaching ethnic studies. After smearing Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan for having worked for civil rights icon Thurgood Marshall, GOP furthers discredits her by pointing out that she read The Diary of […]

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   This has been an on-going story. An update today via The NYTimes (quick post today, folks, because of work craziness): State labor investigators have identified 57 under-age workers who were employed at a kosher meatpacking plant in Postville, Iowa and have asked the attorney general to bring criminal charges against the company for child […]

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    For all of the political junkies amongst us, it’s going to be interesting to see what polls show at the end of the week. For a few days, there will be one huge (I refuse to use the newly concocted "ginormous" which seems to me to be a lazy new word conjured up by […]

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