Working Life

President-Elect Obama, Tax The Rich To Keep Deficits Lower

Jonathan Tasini | Posted 01.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Greed, Class Warfare, Wall Street, Taxes, Working Life, Financial Crisis, Deficits, Transactions Tax, Politics News
Jonathan Tasini

When a political leader says the country will have to make some "very difficult choices", as Obama did, history instructs us that it is average people that get nailed. And it doesn't have to be that way.

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Conspiracy of Silence: Wage Collapse Caused Crisis

Jonathan Tasini | Posted 01.06.2009 | Business

Read More: Greed, Financial Crisis, Debt, Minimum Wage, Wages, Unions, Working Life, Working Class, Business News
Jonathan Tasini

If the lines had continued to track closely together as they did prior to the 1970s, the minimum wage would be more than $19 an hour.

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Blacking Out Single-Payer--And Killing The Auto Industry

Jonathan Tasini | Posted 12.15.2008 | Business

Read More: Chrysler, General Motors, Unions, Working Life, Financial TImes, Ford, New York Times, Uaw, Single Payer, Auto Industry, Business News
Jonathan Tasini

When the history of our current economic crisis is written, there will need to be a full chapter devoted to the willful ignorance or stupidity of t...

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President-Elect Obama, Some "Unconventional" Economic Thinkers To Consider

Jonathan Tasini | Posted 12.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama 2008, Thea Lee, Ron Blackwell, David Morris, Lori Wallach, Economics, Working Life, Joel Rogers, Barbara Ehrenreich, Dean Baker, Politics News
Jonathan Tasini

President-elect Obama has publicly stated that he wants "unconventional" thinking among the people who give him advice on the economy. Fantastic. S...

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Boycott McDonald's: Every Big Mac Eaten Attacks Workers

Jonathan Tasini | Posted 12.10.2008 | Business

Read More: Boycott, Efca, McDonald's, Human Rights, Unions, Working Life, Labor Rights, Business News
Jonathan Tasini

On the eve of the international recognition Human Rights Day, McDonald's announced it will launch a massive campaign to defeat the Employee Free Choice Act So, let's respond in kind: boycott McDonald's.

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Robert Rubin: Coward or Liar -- or Both?

Jonathan Tasini | Posted 11.29.2008 | Politics

Read More: Citibank, Robert Rubin, Financial Crisis, Debt, Working Life, Housing Crisis, Dean Baker, Bill Clinton, Economy, Treasury, Economic Crisis, Politics News
Jonathan Tasini

It's Judgment Day. Rubin needs to get a pink slip and stand on the unemployment line with the vast sea of people he helped put there.

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Big Media: Screw the Auto Workers

Jonathan Tasini | Posted 11.19.2008 | Business

Read More: Uaw, Big Three Automakers, Chrysler, United Auto Workers, Economy, Working Life, Wages, Economic Crisis, Cars, Ford, Automakers, Labor, Bailout, General Motors, Alan Reuther, Ron Gettelfinger, Detroit, Unions, Auto Industry, Business News
Jonathan Tasini

Memo to the media: you want to see the auto industry go down? Fine. But, at least try to give the facts about the cuts, concessions and job losses that workers have taken on in a bid to save their livelihoods.

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