…African American President, was elected twice with majorities, and built a new demographic coalition ushering in a new future for this country. Significantly, his Second Inauguration occurs on the birthday…
…Times reported, “Nearly 80,000 Americans were denied guns in 2010, according to Justice Department data, because they lied or provided inaccurate information about their criminal histories on background check forms….
…allowing employers to refuse to produce such statements to the union. The new rule, announced in December of 2012, in a case called American Baptist Homes of the West d/b/a…
…of gasoline. Hansen’s carbon tax would generate $600 billion – money that would go into a dividend fund to be shared equally among all American citizens. It would soften the blow of…
…outlined three initiatives—adding more jobs in retail, providing job opportunities to veterans and supporting American manufacturing. “Through our buying power, we can give manufacturers the confidence to invest capital here…
Reprinted in LaborPress January 15, 2013 AFT NEWS The Oregon Employment Relations Board ruled on Jan. 4 that all graduate teaching and research assistants at Oregon State University are public…
…debt on the market to help pay for big capital infrastructure projects such as the Second Avenue Subway and East Side Access] will rise 7.6 percent through 2016. The MTA…
…their capacity to provide local, flexible, employer-specific job training to millions of Americans, and transformed these institutions into engines of economic growth. Under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act,…
…pageantry of the Caribbean-American Day Parade on Eastern Parkway earlier in 2012, PEF made sure they were there too. “We think that those out-of-the-box, new innovative ways of showing the…
…Congress self-imposed a deadline, a line in the sand. They scared the American people by defining a fiscal cliff, which then became inconvenient so it morphed in the minds of…
