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The Justice We Are Looking For |
On June 18, 2013, Richard (RJ) Eskow writes on NationOfChange.org: Economically, millennials should run from Randian Republicanism and its Selfishness Lite Democratic version. Culturally, they should run from their elders’ ideas about home ownership and consumerism – ideas which left them in thrall to corporations and banks. What should they run to? To politicians like Warren [...]
...read full post.CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL JUSTICE CESJ’s Response To Rodney Shakespeare, Chris Dorf and Alan Avans By Norman G. Kurland, J.D. Michael D. Greaney, C.P.A., M.B.A. Dawn K. Brohawn June 17, 2013 P.O. Box 40711 • Washington, D.C. 20016, U.S.A. • www.cesj.org INTRODUCTION PART I The Basic Principles Underlying CESJ’s Position A Three Legged Stool: [...]
...read full post.On June 12, 2013, Bob Adelmann writes on TheNewAmerican.com site: Two analogies are often used to describe the actions of the Federal Reserve in the United States as well as other central banks around the world: the punch bowl, and the drug addict. Each is helpful in explaining the addictive nature of easy money (or [...]
...read full post.Economic activity is expected to remain fairly slow in the near future. Above, Imanei Cedeno assembles a Makerbot Industries 3-D printer at the company’s new factory in Brooklyn, N.Y. (Victor J. Blue / Bloomberg / June 12, 2013) On June 13, 2013, Don Lee writes in the Los Angeles Times: The latest quarterly survey by the Business Roundtable, representing [...]
...read full post.On June 12, 2013, Michael Hiltzik writes in the Los Angeles Times: The U.S. economy is improving, yet Congress seems still to be in the grip of the delirium that shrinking the deficit in the near term is still a matter of paramount urgency. That’s what’s prevented lawmakers from dealing with their real task, which is to [...]
...read full post.On June 12, 2013, Tiffany Hsu writes in the Los Angeles Times: Patriotism isn’t easy. Just ask L.A.’s garment makers. Three years after combining their names to create Venley, a company that produces T-shirts and other basics in a downtown Los Angeles factory, onetime fraternity brothers Nick Ventura and Kevin Gressley find manufacturing clothes in [...]
...read full post.On June 13, 2013, Brad Plumer writes on Ezra Klein’s Wonkblog in The Washington Post: In the latest issue of Democracy, Rich Yeselson has a long and interesting essayconsidering the decline of private-sector labor unions in the United States and whether they might ever make a comeback. An increasingly rare sight. (AP) The piece is way too [...]
...read full post.San Francisco, July 20, 1974: [excerpts] “I welcome you to California, to this city here of ours on the Bay, San Francisco. “You know I have become a student of Greek history. I have learned that there was an ancient Greek city-state that had a custom that anyone who proposed a new law or program [...]
...read full post.On June 11, 2013, Robert Reich, Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley and former Secretary of Labor in the Clinton administration, writes: Jobs are returning with depressing slowness, and most of the new jobs pay less than the jobs that were lost in the Great Recession. Economic determinists — fatalists, [...]
...read full post.On June 10, 2013, The Huffington Post states: Minimum wage workers haven’t seen their pay go up much in the past 50 years, but that doesn’t mean they’re less valuable to their employers. The chart below from the New America Foundation, a non-profit public policy institute, shows that worker productivity has in fact skyrocketed even as the [...]
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