Search Content
Protect Americans With American Supplies May. 08, 2020
As our fellow Americans lose jobs and lives due to this pandemic, it's helpful to pause and think ab... Read More
Does a Minimum Wage Hike Lower the Suicide Rate? Jan. 23, 2020
This is a new one. The New York Times headline read: "Minimum Wage Raises Could Lower Suicide Rates,... Read More
Working Hard Versus Hardly Working Jan. 21, 2020
Almost all of us know (because President Trump boasts of it in nearly every speech) that our 3.5% un... Read More
America Works Best When Americans Are Working Oct. 03, 2019
With the unemployment rate holding at 3.7% and a 63% labor participation rate, more Americans are wo... Read More
Academic Stupidity and Brainwashing Sep. 10, 2019
Just when we thought colleges could not spout loonier ideas, we have a new one from American Univers... Read More
Richard Trumka and Big Labor Try to Come Home Jun. 25, 2019
PITTSBURGH — Richard Trumka needed to come home. Walking into the union hall at the Pittsburgh... Read More
Auto Forecast Should Guide Trump's Trade Policy Jun. 21, 2019
The domestic automobile industry has been chugging along so nicely over the past decade that we've a... Read More
Fake News: The Post-Trump Economic 'Disaster' May. 02, 2019
Many "experts" expected, predicted and warned of instant economic disaster under a Donald Trump pres... Read More
Firing Homeland Security Secretary Won't Solve Trump's Immigration Woes Apr. 09, 2019
President Donald Trump decided Sunday to force the resignation of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstj... Read More
Short Takes on Weird News of the Week Feb. 06, 2019
Maligning the Melting Pot Veteran newscaster Tom Brokaw's comments about Hispanic Americans weren't ... Read More
NPR Shamelessly Exploits Cheap Labor Dec. 12, 2018
National Public Radio is out begging for donations this week, with major stations like Washington's ... Read More
Here's to People Who Work With Their Hands Aug. 30, 2018
After leaving high school, my father worked in factories and drove trucks. College was never in the ... Read More
Blind to Real Problems Jun. 20, 2018
For several decades, a few black scholars have been suggesting that the vision held by many black Am... Read More
Don't Make Matters Worse When Fixing DACA Jun. 15, 2018
For more than a decade, Congress has refused to deal with a broken immigration system. Year after ye... Read More
Immigration Policy Both Nasty and Ineffectual Jun. 05, 2018
President Trump's sound and fury on immigration has delivered close to nothing. Trump never lets up,... Read More
Conflicting Visions Aug. 02, 2017
For the most part, people share common goals. Most of us want poor people to enjoy higher standards ... Read More
Minimum Wage Cruelty Jul. 12, 2017
There are political movements to push the federal minimum hourly wage to $15. Raising the minimum wa... Read More
For Women, What Comes Next? Mar. 08, 2017
International Women's Day is a once-a-year acknowledgment of what women do every day of the year, wh... Read More
Trump's Two Good Cabinet Choices Dec. 18, 2016
Judging from the reaction to some of Donald Trump's Cabinet choices, there are two types of business... Read More
Trump Blows Off the Working Class Dec. 15, 2016
A friend of mine, an expert car mechanic, once told me of losing $30,000 in a commodity deal. It was... Read More
