Discouraging Savings as Govt Policy - Why don't Americans save? Because we punish people for having assets. Take long term care for the elderly. Many families...
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June 26, 2005
Renters, Kelo and Community - Here's an odd point about Kelo: people keep talking about its injustice as if the land was being stolen, rather...
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June 24, 2005
More on Kelo and Eminent Domain - I really am just shocked that so many liberal bloggers are upset by the Supreme Court decision upholding local power...
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June 23, 2005
More on Eminent Domain Decision - A lot of progressives are uncomfortable with today's decision on eminent domain, fearing it will lead to big property interests...
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More Supremes Doing Nothing - The Supreme Court once again did its job by doing nothing, upholding a local eminent domain action in New London,...
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June 22, 2005
Flypaper or Training Ground - The Bush Administration sometimes says that Iraq allows us to fight the terrorists overseas rather than here at home. Or...
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June 20, 2005
Bogus "Non-Taxpayers" Figures - A number of conservative bloggers are upset with numbers from the Tax Foundation which shows upwards to 40% of Americans...
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On Nazis and Metaphors - The assault on Dick Durbin for comparing the torture of people at the hands of American forces to what we...
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June 16, 2005
Like Watching a Car Crash - Occasionally, economic disaster hits without warning. Other times it's like watching a car crash in slow motion, with plenty of...
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What Should Courts Do? - Yesterday's Supreme Court case upholding federal law allowing the prosecution of medical marijuana users, despite California law to the contrary,...
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Bush Turning SEC Over to Wolves - Post-Enron, the Bush administration hated the new rules regulating corporate corruption and continually fought new laws to restrict corporate power...
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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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