Important Wage Ruling in Seattle
Court Upholds Most of SeaTac $15 Minimum Wage Initiative, but Rules It Does Not Apply to Airport Workers "While this is surely disappointin... read more...
View ArticleReality based?... Jared Bernstein at NYT on Narrowing the Income Gap
Narrowing the Income Gap, Without Another Bust "There is no single United States economy that’s either doing well or poorly. When someone... read more...
View ArticleRolling Stone article on Five Economic Reforms Millennials Should Be Fighting...
Five Economic Reforms Millennials Should Be Fighting For My bold prediction is that Jesse Myerson's twitter account will explode... Bullet ... read more...
View ArticleFrom Cherokee NC - What happens when the poor receive a stipend
New York Times - What happens when the poor receive a stipend Tribal sharing of casino funds longitudinal study "…just four years after th... read more...
View ArticleNY Times - Union Drive Doesn’t Bother Management, but G.O.P. Fumes
Tennessee and the UAW union drive making it into the old grey lady... Union Drive Doesn’t Bother Management, but G.O.P. Fumes U.A.W.’s d... read more...
View ArticleBob Corker drops bombshell - Reuters/vote reset?
U.S. senator drops bombshell during VW plant union vote U.S. Senator Bob Corker of Tennessee said on Wednesday he has been "assured" that if... read more...
View ArticleThe middle class's missing $1.6 trillion
Charles Morris at Reuters - The middle class’s missing $1.6 trillion This article is a keeper, good read with some solid hyperlinked refe... read more...
View ArticleThank you, NAFTA
Mexico accounts for about 18% of North American auto production, and auto industry employment there has soared 46% to about 580,000 jobs sin... read more...
View ArticleThe Geography of US Government Benefits
Interactive map of US Government Benefits And Kaiser Mortality rates Cracking the hood on the daily show's satire. ... read more...
View ArticleInstitute on Taxation & Economic Policy Who pays? Where TN tax policy ranks
Who Pays? A Distributional Analysis of the Tax Systems in All 50 States Tennessee ranks 4th out the 10 most regressive states. Select Tennes... read more...
View ArticleOther TN cities - leadership & light rail
All aboard? Chattanooga eyes $35 million light rail system But rail travel here could be poised for a comeback if a plan to resurrect the c... read more...
View ArticleAusterity Capitalism
In the United States, the situation is spectacularly grim.The US economy has not managed to climb back from its pre-recession level of unemp... read more...
View ArticleProgressives and the White Working Class - Roundtable discussion
Democratic Strategist Roundtable Link takes one to a roundtable with articles by Ruy Teixera & Stanley Greenberg who co-wrote It's the ... read more...
View ArticleACA - healthcare & social assistance employment growth ~1/2 in TN vs...
BLS Employment Situation Summary May 2014 Macroeconomics still matters. If states don't get ACA funds, fewer people will have jobs while m... read more...
View ArticleNLRB rules on Browning-Ferris: MickyD's workers have the right to know for...
Steven Greenhouse at the NYT - McDonald’s Ruling Could Open Door for Unions Yesterday the National Labor Relations Board invalidated a maj... read more...
View ArticleWhen economic hackofistry is no longer printable
Kansas is getting sucked up into a public finance sharknado budget disaster driven by the wind shear of Brownback’s tax cuts. Folks who l... read more...
View ArticleGaza: it's about natural gas
(link...) The issue of sovereignty over Gaza’s gas fields is crucial. From a legal standpoint, the gas reserves belong to Palestine. The d... read more...
View ArticleSome happy Labor Day news from California
A deal got cut that left out in-home caregivers irritating labor but still a move in the right direction. 2nd behind Connecticut to get som... read more...
View ArticleFederal Reserve - Top 10% of White Families Own Almost Everything
Matt Bruenig at Demos broke out his spreadsheet and made some graphs using the US Federal Reserve's triennial 2013 Survey of Consumer Financ... read more...
View ArticleJohn Stewart: Amendment 3 would bring higher sales, food, business taxes
John Stewart, of Knoxville, pens a solid op-ed in the KNS on why to vote no on Amendment 3. Rendered in understandable English, the meaning ... read more...
View ArticleVW sets new "Community Organization Engagement" policy at Chattanooga Plant
Steven Greenhouse at the NYT VW to Allow Labor Groups to Represent Workers at Chattanooga Plant Under VW’s new policy, employee groups wi... read more...
View ArticleNLRB issues complaints since McDonald's qualifies as joint employer
Tim Devaney at The Hill - NLRB hits McDonald’s as joint employer McDonald's argued it shouldn't be held responsible for labor decisions m... read more...
View ArticleRewriting the Rules
This morning at the presser Elizabeth Warren - "too bad joe stiglitz, Nobel laureate, can't read the TPP trade deal." Dr. Joe Stiglitz - "Th... read more...
View ArticleLA raises minimum wage to $15/hr
$15 in five years, about $1.25 per year increase from current levels. By Jennifer Medina and Noam Scheiber in the NYT Los Angeles Lifts Its... read more...
View ArticleFamily financial volatility in today's America
JPMorgan Chase Institute report Weathering Volatility - Big Data on the Financial Ups and Downs of U.S. Individuals KEY FINDINGS Volatili... read more...
View ArticleWhat's going on? Haslam's outsourcing scheme - United Campus Workers
What: What's going on? Haslam's outsourcing scheme - United Campus Workers When: Thursday, August 20, 2015 - 11:00am ... read more...
View ArticleNLRB rules in joint employer decision - refines standard for determining...
Here's some good news. NLRB Statement Board Issues Decision in Browning-Ferris Industries In the decision, the Board applies long-establishe... read more...
View ArticlePanama Papers
Incredible investigative reporting done by ICIJ and others based upon a massive leak by Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca. Big story, fas... read more...
View ArticleBill to require drug tests for those claiming large exemptions
Congresswoman Gwen Moore (D-WI) has introduced the Top 1% Accountability Act My legislation would require taxpayers with itemized deductions... read more...
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