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Category: Labor and unions

With Trump, is there a line between business and government?

December 13, 2016 Arthur Lieber 2016 Election, Business, Environment, Good government, Government, Justice, Labor and unions, Taxes Leave a comment

The idea of a Donald Trump presidency has me musing about what we were supposed to learn in school. We were taught that capitalism

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UK’s Labour Party elects socialist leader Jeremy Corbyn

September 18, 2015 Madonna Gauding Government, International, Labor and unions Leave a comment

Jeremy Corbyn, elected by a landslide to lead Britain’s Labour Party, has for his entire 32 years in politics held fast to the socialist

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Iran Nuclear Deal too complicated for TV commercials

July 29, 2015 Arthur Lieber Climate Change, Foreign Policy, Labor and unions, Media, Obama, Politics, Public safety, Science, United Nations, War Leave a comment

A new CNN / ORC poll just revealed that the majority of Americans want Congress to reject the nuclear deal with Iran that the

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Trying to look sympathetically at Trans-Pacific Partnership

April 20, 2015 Arthur Lieber Business, Consumer issues, Corporations, Economy, Employment, Foreign Policy, International, Labor and unions, Obama Leave a comment

In the 19th Century, the Victorian historian Thomas Carlyle coined the phrase “dismal science” for the field of economics. With the help of new

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Scott Walker anti-union

Obama’s indifference to labor allowed the rise of Scott Walker

April 2, 2015 Madonna Gauding Labor and unions, Obama Leave a comment

  My Obamaphile friends may object, but it’s time to consider an uncomfortable fact about Obama: His indifference to the plight of labor unions in Wisconsin led to the

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Wisconsin shows how difficult it is to hold on to progressive gains

March 4, 2015 Arthur Lieber Economy, Employment, History, Labor and unions, Religion in Politics, States One comment

Robert Lafollette, Jr. and Joseph McCarthy. Russ Feingold and Scott Walker. How could one state–Wisconsin–elect politicians with such divergent views? No state east of

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$15 minimum wage? Not a problem, says Seatac WA

September 18, 2014 Madonna Gauding Economy, Labor and unions, Poverty Leave a comment

It is to the real advantage of every producer, every manufacturer and every merchant to cooperate in the improvement of working conditions, because the

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America’s not-so “Golden Age” (1945-1971)

March 18, 2014 Madonna Gauding Economy, Employment, Environment, Infrastructure, Labor and unions, Privacy/surveillance Leave a comment

The financial meltdown of 2008 prompted many of us to look back to the decades after WWII for guidance—when Glass-Steagall kept banks in check,

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Robert Reich: The war on the poor and working class, in 2 min., 15 sec.

February 19, 2014 Susan Cunningham Activism, Consumer issues, Corporations, Economy, Employment, Labor and unions, Poverty, Social Sec/Medicare Leave a comment

This is the best summary of the not-so-hidden agenda of the corporate class to weaken the tiny bit of power the working class still

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Resurging interest in Teddy Roosevelt’s Progressive Movement

January 10, 2014 Arthur Lieber Consumer issues, Economy, Federalism, Labor and unions, Public safety, Social Sec/Medicare Leave a comment

Biographer and historian Doris Kearns Goodwin has written biographies of Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Lyndon Baines Johnson. As she looked to a

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