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Richard Trumka and Big Labor Try to Come Home Jun. 25, 2019
PITTSBURGH — Richard Trumka needed to come home. Walking into the union hall at the Pittsburgh... Read More
Auto Forecast Should Guide Trump's Trade Policy Jun. 21, 2019
The domestic automobile industry has been chugging along so nicely over the past decade that we've a... Read More
Fake News: The Post-Trump Economic 'Disaster' May. 02, 2019
Many "experts" expected, predicted and warned of instant economic disaster under a Donald Trump pres... Read More
Firing Homeland Security Secretary Won't Solve Trump's Immigration Woes Apr. 09, 2019
President Donald Trump decided Sunday to force the resignation of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstj... Read More
Short Takes on Weird News of the Week Feb. 06, 2019
Maligning the Melting Pot Veteran newscaster Tom Brokaw's comments about Hispanic Americans weren't ... Read More
NPR Shamelessly Exploits Cheap Labor Dec. 12, 2018
National Public Radio is out begging for donations this week, with major stations like Washington's ... Read More
Here's to People Who Work With Their Hands Aug. 30, 2018
After leaving high school, my father worked in factories and drove trucks. College was never in the ... Read More
Blind to Real Problems Jun. 20, 2018
For several decades, a few black scholars have been suggesting that the vision held by many black Am... Read More
Don't Make Matters Worse When Fixing DACA Jun. 15, 2018
For more than a decade, Congress has refused to deal with a broken immigration system. Year after ye... Read More
Immigration Policy Both Nasty and Ineffectual Jun. 05, 2018
President Trump's sound and fury on immigration has delivered close to nothing. Trump never lets up,... Read More
Conflicting Visions Aug. 02, 2017
For the most part, people share common goals. Most of us want poor people to enjoy higher standards ... Read More
Minimum Wage Cruelty Jul. 12, 2017
There are political movements to push the federal minimum hourly wage to $15. Raising the minimum wa... Read More
For Women, What Comes Next? Mar. 08, 2017
International Women's Day is a once-a-year acknowledgment of what women do every day of the year, wh... Read More
Trump's Two Good Cabinet Choices Dec. 18, 2016
Judging from the reaction to some of Donald Trump's Cabinet choices, there are two types of business... Read More
Trump Blows Off the Working Class Dec. 15, 2016
A friend of mine, an expert car mechanic, once told me of losing $30,000 in a commodity deal. It was... Read More
Want a Job? Nov. 24, 2016
Do you remember the days when everyone seemed to retire on or before that ominous 65th birthday? Wel... Read More
Leave Divisive Narrative Behind Us Now Nov. 16, 2016
Occasionally in the space of political discourse, convenient narratives replace actual facts, especi... Read More
Hillary Clinton, You're No John F. Kennedy Sep. 03, 2016
The election season is heating up. Donald Trump has pulled back even with Hillary Clinton, and every... Read More
America is Still the Land of Opportunity Sep. 01, 2016
America has long been known as the land of opportunity. "When one starts poor," Abraham Lincoln obse... Read More
Elitist Arrogance, Part II Jun. 08, 2016
A basic economic premise holds that when the price of something rises, people seek to economize on i... Read More
