POLITICUS USA
“Once again, Trump is perpetuating an offensive lie and stirring up minority resentment to please his base, and GOP members of Congress are too spineless to reject it.” MORE
Tag Archives: jobs
“Reviving manufacturing would help all of us—not just white men”
SALON
“The Check In: President Trump’s Federal Hiring Freeze”
“Trading places: Donald Trump’s anti-trade policies may damage America’s economy, leaving China’s looking and feeling good”
SALON
“Democrats wrestle with Rust Belt dilemma”
POLITICO
Party leaders in fast-growing states warn against obsessing over Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
“What’s Going on With America’s White People?”
POLITICO
Donald Trump’s appeals to working-class white Americans have no doubt stoked racial tensions. But his popularity among these voters has also put an unexpected spotlight on their grievances—whether they feel left behind by globalization and immigration or resentful of an elite political class that seems to ignore them. Do poor white Americans suddenly feel more disgruntled than ever, or are the rest of us just now paying attention? How much of their pique has to do with economic factors versus matters of race or, simply, health? And what does it all mean for American politics—in 2016 and beyond? MORE
“Loretta Lynch Introduces Plan To Keep Prisoners Connected To Family”
THINK PROGRESS
Attorney General Loretta Lynch
“Media Gives Trump A Free Pass For Economic Problems His Policies and Businesses Help Create”
POLITICUS USA
Trump’s own business practices are and have been characterized by the drive to decrease wages and benefits for workers while it has been precisely governmental efforts, on both Federal as well as state levels, which have succeeded in legislating or attempted to legislate higher minimum wages.
“Ex-Im [BANK] opponents scoff as GE moves jobs overseas”
POLITICO
Hundreds of jobs are being relocated overseas or lost altogether as a result of the June 30 expiration of the Export-Import Bank — with no relief in sight as a gridlocked Congress is unlikely to reauthorize it anytime soon.
General Electric announced Tuesday that will move 500 U.S.-based jobs to Europe and China because the agency’s expiration means it has to seek export financing credit elsewhere. Boeing, meanwhile, blamed the collapse of a second satellite deal on the loss of credit and said it will likely result in the loss of hundreds of jobs by year’s end. MORE
“America’s inequality crisis is about so much more than money: The ugly realities that elude our politicians”
SALON
Inequality is about much more than the growing chasm of income and wealth between those at the very top and everyone else in America. It’s also about education, environmental hazards, health and health care, incarceration, law enforcement, wage theft and policies that interfere with family life over multiple generations.
In its full dimensions, inequality shapes, distorts and destroys lives in ways that get little attention from politicians and major news organizations. How many of us know that every day 47 American babies die, who would live if only our nation had the much better infant mortality rates of Sweden?
“Poverty is not natural,” Nelson Mandela once said. “It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings.”
The man-made disparities between the rich and the poor are a threat to the liberties of the people. Plutarch, the Greco-Roman historian, observed more than 2000 years ago that, “an imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.” MORE
