Jun 1, 2015
On May 26, 2015, Senator Bernie Sanders (D-VT) formally announced his candidacy for the presidency. It wasn’t a surprise: Bernie had been getting out there a lot lately with some of his whacked-out ideas, such as—prepare to faint—free college education for all, a progressive tax system and breaking up dangerously large Wall Street banks (who are even larger today than…
Nov 4, 2014
There’s been a lot of confusion out there about Prop 45—and much of it has been the intended result of an extremely well-financed opposition. When you have a ton of money, you can effectively flood the airwaves, the internet and folks’ mailboxes with an ocean of misinformation. Proposition 45 is quite simple. Here’s the precise verbiage from the ballot as…
Aug 22, 2014
There’s been a very discernible shift in the American work environment since the beginning of the Great Recession of 2008. That’s for those Americans who are actually working full-time jobs. Just to remind you, unemployment is still painfully high. Last week’s headlines boast the ‘hot streak’ of new jobs being added to the economy and unemployment falling to 6.2%. But if…
Feb 18, 2014
You don’t know about the Trans-Pacific Partnership—or as it has been referred to, “NAFTA on steroids”— because corporate America doesn’t want you to. But you better bone up on it real fast because if think NAFTA was a bad deal, wait until you get a hold of this one: the TPP will essentially expand NAFTA to 11 more countries. Tweet