Real wages are falling at a near-record rate. Yesterday’s figures show that they were 6% lower in April than they were in April 2008. This is the biggest five-year drop in real wages since 1921-26, and the second-largest fall since records began in 1855. This cannot be blamed simply on the recession. As the …
Updates on corporate globalization, Philly schools, paid vacation law(?), the “Cadillac Tax. Interview with Stanley Aronowitz on labor, unions and the left. Responses to listeners on higher ed economics and US income inequality Podcast: Play in new window | Download (13.4MB) | Embed
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Corporate interests and their elected representatives have created a world of illusion in order to resist paying a decent wage to working Americans. They’d have us believe that minimum-wage workers are teens from ’50s TV sitcoms working down at the local malt shoppe. It’s a retro-fantasy where corporate stinginess creates …
Dr. Jack Rasmus welcomes back Art Stamoulis, Executive Director of Citizenstrade.org, to report on and discuss the latest developments in the ‘Free Trade on Steroids’ deal being pushed by Obama on behalf of transnational US corporations. With an agreement target date of October 2013 set by the US and negotiating …
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Updates on important lessons of Cyprus crisis, big bucks for Wells Fargo CEO, the home finance crisis, and real fur faked. Interview with Keith Harrington on organizing for a changed, new economic system. Analysis of South Mountain Co, a workers coop; response to questions on Obamacare and on minimum wage …
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Updates on worker takeover of Greek factory, minimum wage debate, and European horsemeat scandal. Detailed analyses of Post Office cutbacks, economics of educational decline, and paying for war with taxes. Comments on Cambridge, MA workers who reopen and run pizza closed by capitalist owners; responses on relation of capitalism and …
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This past year I’ve had the opportunity to cover the antipoverty movement—and I do believe it’s a movement—it’s just a little too much of a well-kept secret right now. But I think in 2013, the people and groups at the forefront of antipoverty thinking and action are poised to reach …
The Obama administration and top Democrats in Congress were pleased with the Jan. 4 U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics report showing an upward tick in employment and a slight dip in the national unemployment rate, at 7.8%. It’s yet another sign that Obama’s economic strategies are working, they said — a …
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Right to Work? Right to Get Screwed Over – the constant war against workers heats up. – Podcast: Play in new window | Download (0.0KB) | Embed
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Today Dr. Rasmus will discuss the emerging ‘Transpacific Partnership’ Free Trade agreement that has been quietly been taking shape behind the scenes, largely unreported by the press, that will result in a major negative impact on jobs and wages of American workers. Lost in all the talk about fiscal cliff …
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That Michigan became the 24th state to part ways with its die-hard union past and join the right-to-work club is significant. That the legislative “battle” was tidied up in just one day is even more so. Leid Stories discusses Republican Gov. Rick Snyder’s big win, how organized labor dropped the …
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When a WalMart warehouse worker lifts a heavy box, they’re lifting our lives up too. – Podcast: Play in new window | Download (13.2MB) | Embed
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Whenever I speak about the systematic abridgment of basic rights in the post-9/11 era, there is a point I try to make that is quite elusive yet, in my view, of unparalleled significance in understanding the implications of allowing this to happen. When a government is permitted to transgress the …
NAACP Image Awards Targeted for Protest Benton Harbor, Michigan, activist Rev. Edward Pinkney plans to lead hundreds of pickets at the NAACP’s Image Awards ceremonies on February 1, in Los Angeles. “Our main objective is to wake up the NAACP, and show that they are out of touch with the community,” said …
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Income inequality, Wal-Mart, the fire in Bangladesh – the cycle keeps repeating. Podcast: Play in new window | Download (13.0MB) | Embed
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