San Francisco Sitting in the Tides Momentum conference, I couldn’t help taking some notes as Larry Mishel from the Economic Policy Institute showed his slides estimating that unemployment would rise to over 10% in 2010. More frighteningly, he said that when he added in underemployment the rates would be almost 18% then with 27,000,000 jobs …
Tides Momentum Labor Day
San Francisco A 6 AM flight from NOLA and hours circumnavigating the Bay because of the Bay Bridge repairs on a beautifully sunny Sunday from airport to Benicia Bookshop for Citizen Wealth to Tides Momentum Conference at the chic W in downtown left me dragging wagon until the JBL Award winners had their chance to …
Standing Up Against McCarthyism
Memphis Changing planes heading for the West Coast, and even on Labor Day when it’s time to talk about why unions matter and what we need to do about it, we are blocked by our inability to unite to stand together against the new McCarthyism. My twitter and Facebook buddies were wild in the tweets …