Jobs
State of the Union and openings for progress
January 28, 2011The president's State of the Union speech provided openings and challenges for the labor and people's movements on jobs and economic security, peace and democratic rights.
Read moreTroops line up in fight to stop GOP attack on government
January 27, 2011Senate Democrats came out swinging Jan. 26 against a GOP budget plan they said risks the loss of 1 million jobs.
Read moreShop Talk: saving jobs, preventing disasters and more
January 22, 2011Not paid at all for three pay periods, 3,750 jobs saved at Kansas City plant, Union credited with saving 700 jobs in Indiana, He wants working families to pay, Coal mine disaster 'preventable'
Read moreOn lessons of New Deal, GOP fails miserably
January 22, 2011The New Deal economic recovery programs during the Great Depression of the 1930s showed how to solve economic crises without resorting to war.
Read moreMichigan governor goes down old, no-solution path
January 20, 2011Republican Gov. Rick Snyder's State of the State address last night showed that his drive to "reinvent" Michigan is neither new nor a balm for this crisis-weary state.
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