| Aug 29, 2011 | Rights / DemocracyAfter their state passed universal healthcare legislation this spring, Vermonters were surprised by a gaping omission in national news coverage: they weren’t in it. Despite a statewide grassroots campaign that demanded the historic legislation, most news reports...
| | Economy / BusinessCreating jobs isn’t cheap or easy. Not for the private sector and not for the public sector. But Americans need jobs. We need to be able to work hard all day and provide for our families. While no solutions are easy, there are important steps that the government...
| | Economy / BusinessAh, Labor Day, the holiday when we honor Organized Labor. You know, unions and stuff like that. Yes, there’ll be picnics and speeches detailing the enormous contribution unions make to our nation’s prosperity. Political candidates will extol the virtues of...
| | Economy / BusinessIn today’s fast-moving world of consumer styles, when you’re out, you’re out. Not just out-of-style, but so far out that you no longer interest the big marketers. Thus it is that advertising authorities have deemed the middle class itself (roughly 60...
| | Economy / BusinessBashing unions Makes me quake; We’ve all got A lot at stake. Here in investor-laden Connecticut, labor scored a rare coup this year. We became the first state to require most service-sector employers to provide paid sick leave. Sure, all governments and most big...
