Labor

On Friday, FCIC Chairman Phil Angelides was in DC to deliver a keynote address at a New America Foundation conference on financial reforms, jobs, housing, ...

Last Thursday's event at the New America Foundation on the “rural brain drain” billed itself as examining a “major policy problem that has largely escaped ...

Today is Labor Day, when we celebrate the wealth destroyers--at least if the libertarian right is to be believed.

Several years ago, I spoke on a panel where an audience member posed the rhetorical question, "Can any of you envision a robust progressive movement that doesn't have organized labor at the center of it?"

Can there be liberalism without labor? Can a progressive movement exist in a country in which organized labor has lost its political influence? My friend Mark Schmitt, the executive editor of the American Prospect, asks that question:

Samuel Sherraden from New America Foundation on why the government's $60 billion stimulus for green job creation hasn't worked. Original clip

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For the last few months, the Obama White House has focused its attention on health care, and for good reason: Rising medical expenditures really do threaten to cripple the federal government and crowd out the investment we need to build a flourishing economy.

Low-wage workers are some of America's most vulnerable workers. In addition to the problem of having low wages, many have little input into the hours that they work and many have unpredictable work schedules, with the timing and amount of work hours fluctuating from week to week. A cascade of negative consequences can flow from being unable to alter work schedules or know them in advance - including unstable child care; difficulty accessing work supports and job training;… more