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Our power to influence politics is limited by the media’s willingness to cover the stories about the rest of us. That’s why some of the largest protests in U.S. history failed to stop the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, and why months of pro-labor protests in Wisconsin this year attracted scant attention compared with much smaller-scale tea party rallies.
The Government Can and Should Help Create Jobs Now
Creating jobs isn’t cheap or easy. Not for the private sector and not for the public sector.
The Rich are Raking it in, so Where are the Jobs?
Ah, 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 the American worker and…
Mass-Marketing Goes Platinum
In 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.
The War on Labor
Here in investor-laden Connecticut, labor just scored a rare coup. We became the first state to require universal paid sick leave.
Catering to the Rich
The Lineup: Week of Aug. 29-Sept. 4, 2011
In this Labor Day special, Sam Pizzigati casts a light on corporate consultants who recommend gutting the pay of America’s most experienced and skilled workers.
The Lineup: Week of Aug. 22-28, 2011
Ann Mesnikoff hails the government’s plans to strengthen fuel-efficiency standards and Jim Hightower laments a “loopy crusade” against energy-efficient light bulbs.
Paving the Way to 60 Miles per Gallon
Americans use a lot of oil every day: nearly 20 million barrels — or, if you prefer, 840 million gallons. About 9 million of these barrels go toward feeding our cars and trucks every day. What’s more, paying for all of this oil drains as much as $1 billion from our economy to foreign oil producers.
Let’s ‘Make Them’ End the Great Recession
Raising the national debt ceiling may have forestalled an immediate U.S. default and credit collapse, but the deal will do absolutely nothing to address the real problems of our time.
