Jobs crisis over! Hiring increase for receptionists, waiters, clerks, temp workers… At last, some excellent economic news for folks long-mired in the jobs crisis and stagnant labor market! At least, those were the headlines recently trumpeted across the country. “Jobs Spring Back,” exclaimed a typical [more...]
‘Grand Bargain’ turning into ‘Shady Transaction’ for Obama Thankfully the current revival of President Obama’s Charm Offensive is not a theatrical production, because the reviews are decidedly mixed. Seeing him furiously pirouette around Washington for the last two weeks like a carnival contortionist makes you [more...]
Doug Jones doesn’t relate much to Dow Jones “It’s a sign,” exclaims a February Associated Press story — a sign that our economy is “healing.” “It signals that things are getting back to normal,” added a delighted market analyst. And a March 4 New York [more...]
Single mom led fifty community members onto the stage to confront Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf CARLSBAD, CA – Today, dozens of homeowners and supporters joined Betty Badro in confronting Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf at a banker’s conference on the day before her home [more...]
Minimum wage is a poverty wage “In the wealthiest nation on earth,” President Obama declared in his State of the Union speech, “no one who works full-time should have to live in poverty.” Right! Way to go! Not only does his call to raise America’s [more...]
Hemp, hemp, hurray for a crop that could deliver a new economic high for America! Four years ago, Michelle Obama picked up a shovel and made a powerful symbolic statement about America’s food and farm future: She turned a patch of White House lawn into [more...]
Thousands prefer plunge over fiscal cliff to listening to politicians Driven to the brink of insanity by constant warnings from politicians regarding the fiscal cliff, thousands of Americans have gone ahead and jumped over the brink on their own. Still reeling from a long, difficult [more...]
While we wish we could say the economy is just humming along, we can’t so, why not just join our Fiscal Cliff sing along instead? Oh no, Oh no (Hi ho, Hi ho) Oh no, Oh no It’s over the cliff we go No deal [more...]
In the news, the Nobel Committee awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to the European Union Friday in Stockholm. Americans did walk away with one of the big awards. This year the Nobel Prize for Economics went to a California couple who sold their house five [more...]
We’re 77 percent sure this article will clarify things for about 47 percent of you The lines between the haves and have nots are still a bit blurry, meaning the 1% pretty much have it all, while the rest of us don’t. However, the lines [more...]