Economy and Business
Fracking the IRS
As the Super Congress eyes trillions in budget cuts that will undermine the quality of life for most Americans, here’s a stunning fact to contemplate: Twenty five hugely profitable U.S. companies paid their CEOs more last year than they paid Uncle Sam in taxes.
A Tip for Joe the Machinist: Watch Your Back
You work hard. You do good work. You loyally stick with your employer through good times and bad. Do you have a right to a paycheck that rises over time?
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.
Catering to the Rich
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.
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.
AT&T Takeover of T-Mobile Won’t Create New Jobs
The fury surrounding the debt ceiling deal was so boisterous and rowdy that most Americans took a while to notice that it does nothing to create jobs.
How to Make the Super Congress Open and Accountable
The hurriedly passed Budget Control Act raised the nation’s debt ceiling and made some efforts to reduce the deficit. The law also demands that Congress reduce the deficit another $1.2 trillion through spending cuts and additional revenue. The power to choose how those reductions will be made will be concentrated in the hands of the 12 members of the Joint Select Committee on Debt Reduction, nicknamed the “Super Congress.”
