New Orleans The big whoops are scratching their heads on a weaker than expected jobs report recently. Has the economy begun to sputter after recent acceleration or have we reached something close to full employment? Remember full employment doesn’t mean everyone has a job, but means that we’re at something close to the bottom of …
Tag: President Clinton
The Destruction of Citizen Wealth
New Orleans It is hard to miss the markers of the precipitous slide of US citizen wealth flowing from the Great Recession. New figures from the Census Bureau indicate another dive for the 4th straight year (obviously starting in 2007 in the Bush era). We now stand a hair above $50,000 in median household …
USA Poverty: Why Can’t We End it? Answer: Don’t Want to!
New Orleans I’ve know Peter Edelman since my days as an organizer for the National Welfare Rights Organization (NWRO) at the end of the 1960’s. He was a policy centered advocate for many of our positions and gave our organizing some credibility when we needed it. My respect grew for him when he resigned as a …
Obama and India FDI
New Orleans President Obama continues to sightsee and glad hand his way across India on his sales trip for US business interests, soft shoeing around the issue of jobs being outsourced to India, even as he argues to the US press that by meeting his sales quota over there, he will create jobs over here. …