Category: Unions
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Immigration and Economic Insecurity
This is about depressed wages, fewer opportunities for Union workers, and lack of fairness for taxpayers. Just like this mother is fighting for her family’s future, these families are fighting for the future of their children.
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Infrastructure: All of the Above
The costs of rebuilding America are high. The costs of doing nothing are much higher. I will fight to rebuild this District on every level and on every day. We can only do this together and by creating jobs, in the present and for the future.
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Savings Drain, Wage Stagnation Major Concerns for Economy
Signs of strain emerge in the Trump-GOP economy, says Chandra and Golle of Bloomberg. When savings are drained, it limits consumer spending. This is especially troubling ahead of the holiday season and the all important 4th Quarter where many companies make it back into the black. The real problem here is stagnant wages in the…
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Unions, Wage Stagnation, & Labor
It’s time to balance the power between workers and employers By Lawrence H. Summers Wash Post, September 3 Lawrence Summers is a professor at and past president of Harvard University. He was treasury secretary from 1999 to 2001 and an economic adviser to President Barack Obama from 2009 through 2010. The central issue in American…
