America’s long slope down Reuters ...We need to recognize that the tax cutters were snake oil salesmen, the Federal Reserve an enabler of damaging debts and that bilateral trade deals are written of, by and for global financiers, not workers...
Job JOLTS - There are 3.7 Unemployed People Per Job Opening for April 2012 Economic Populist ...Officially, there are 12.5 million unemployed for April, unofficially the number is more like 27 million...
The failure to explain health reform Columbia Journalism Review ...If the Supreme Court rules the health reform law or its central feature—the individual mandate requiring people to have health insurance—is unconstitutional, much of the public won’t shed a tear...
How Midwesterners Feel About Unions The Midwesterner ...An overwhelming majority -- 85 to 8 percent -- support collective bargaining rights for unions in general. This support drops to 66 percent for public sector bargaining rights, but is still solid...
A cautionary tale for economic development boosters Bleeding Heartland ...no electric cars will roll off assembly lines in Webster City. On the contrary, the city will be lucky to get back money it loaned to a company that never delivered on its owner's promises...
Catholic sisters rally against Ryan budget Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ...A group of Catholic sisters broke bread Tuesday with the poor and homeless at Milwaukee's St. Benedict the Moor Catholic Church, part of a nine-state bus tour drawing attention to proposed Republican budget cuts and the Catholic charities they say would be harmed by them...
