Working Life

Got crabs? Cut corporate taxes. Can’t get your kid to eat spinach? Cut corporate taxes. Worried your skin it too dry? Cut corporate taxes. And, then, of course, want the economy to be more "competitive" and "grow"? Cut corporate taxes. None of the above will be helped by cutting corporate taxes–but the reasons given for […]

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I think it is always useful to see the threads connecting what might seem to be things that happen independently. The big picture is this: we live in a dysfunctional economic system which has created the greatest divide between rich and poor in a hundred years–and that is a global point. Here, for your consideration, […]

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   Yesterday, I participated in a debate on CNBC about whether unions helped the "middle class". The most comical and childish comment came from the fellow from the Cato Institute who called unions a “leukemia” on American society. I thought of this poor fellow this morning when I read this in The Wall Street Journal: […]

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Now, here’s an interesting story: L.A. gang members go union A rising number of gangbangers are moving into well-paid futures as members of the region’s building trade unions. By Sam Quinones, Times Staff Writer Shortly after his release from prison four years ago, Julio Silva entered the apprenticeship program in the Ironworkers Union Local 433 […]

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