Bush's Radical Second Term - Ron Suskind's NYTimes piece is chilling in its description of a man who thinks he's on a mission from God,...
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Why Wireless Phones Matter - A lot of folks have wondered what impact cell phones have on polls. Mystery Pollster argues that people with only...
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Brooklyn: Get on the Bus - A nice note from Americans Coming Together on Pennsylvania Outreach. They're adding a bus leaving from Brooklyn (and I bet...
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October 10, 2004
In the Field: Get on the Bus! - Well, I spent yesterday walking precints in Philadelphia suburbs, talking to actual undecided voters (heaven help them, they're still out...
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October 08, 2004
Supply Side Economics Still Dead - Let's just say Bush's experiment hasn't added any data in support of the idea that slashing taxes on the wealthy...
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MI AFL-CIO: No on Anti-Gay Amendment - From the Coalition for a Fair Michigan: Michigan AFL-CIO President Mark Gaffney indicated that the organization views Proposal 2 as...
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The "Afghan Miracle" - Dick Cheney extolled our policy in Afghanistan, but the reality is that women are still oppressed and even beaten for...
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Job Cuts Surge in Sept. - Report: U.S. job cuts at eight-month high in Sept.: Planned job cuts soared to an eight-month high in September while...
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Wal-Mart Doing Good for Environment - Seriously. This initiative by Wal-Mart to promote energy-saving light bulbs is a major environmental initiative. "Compact fluorescent" bulbs fit in...
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The Collapse of Tax Cut Politics - You can check out Progressive States rundown of progressive successes in the states on Tuesday, but I want to focus...
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November 08, 2006
A Good Night for Progressives - Let's be clear-- this wasn't just a good night for Democrats. It was a good night for progressives, and no...
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November 01, 2006
Labor Cold War Ends - New International Labor Federation - At the dawn of the Cold War, the international union movement divided up between the ICFTU, dominated by US and Western European unions, and the World Confederation of Labor, largely allied with the Soviet Union. It's taken a decade and a half, but the irrelevancy of that division will end today as the two federations merge-- bringing together 241 labor organizations from 156 countries representing 190 million workers. The new International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) is a good step for a labor movement looking to globalize itself in the taking on global capital power....
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- Valuing Families: State Legislative Models Brought to you by Progressive States and MomsRising What would a policy that really values families look...
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October 09, 2006
Emaciated Models, Labor Regulation - There's a bit of debate in the blogosphere around Spain's new law banning underweight models from the runways in that country. See Jordan, Amanda at Pandagon and Lindsay Beyerstein at Majikthise on whether this is an intrusive regulating violating free expression or something like that and whether OSHA safety regulations are appropriate. Just to throw my two cents in-- any broader OSHA approach would seem cumbersome and bureaucratically intrusive in a deep way. But the original Spanish proposal is brilliant in its high-impact, low-intrusion approach. Regulate only the fashion week type runways, where in a single spotcheck, models can be...
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October 03, 2006
Big loss for Labor-- - The National Labor Relations Board ruled today that a range of professionals are now deemed "supervisors" and thus lose all protections under labor law. That means if they say a positive thing about unions, their bosses are free to fire them at will. The AFL-CIO has more here. To put this denial of labor rights in perspective, 32 million workers or 25% of the workforce already have no right to form a union under federal, state or local law (see this GAO report and this ARAW summary). This includes: Supervisors 16.6 million workers, 8 million new supervisors plus traditional 8.6...
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