Republicans’ Long Held Dream of Slashing Health Insurance for Millions About to Come True
Unfortunately, the decades long Republican party effort to strip millions of Americans from a basic right to health insurance seems Continue Reading
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Crazytown 2025: Republicans Create Fiscal Chaos, Destructive Budget Proposal; What’s Going On?
The Republicans who control the House and Senate have begun their process to pass a giant Budget Reconciliation package ofContinue Reading
THE HANDY REFERENCE GUIDE TO TRUMP LIES 2.0
During the Trump second term, Americans can expect another onslaught of lies, far more than any fact checker could handle.Continue Reading
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THE PRECARIOUS ELECTION: Why Biden’s Not to Blame for Inflation, Part One: COVID Turns the World Upside Down
Leading up to the 2020 election, I wrote a series of blog posts titled, “The Purple Highway.” This time around,Continue Reading
NYC Adds Nearly a Million Jobs As It Reaches a Total Recovery from One of the Worst Pandemic Drops in the Nation
Let me start with the good news: New York City has regained nearly one million jobs, 29.9% above its lowestContinue Reading
Congress Returns to Washington as New York’s Future Hangs in the Balance
Congress returned to Washington D.C this past week and New Yorkers have a big stake in the outcome of anyContinue Reading
The Pandemic Has Forced Hundreds of Thousands Out of the City’s Labor Force. They Are Not Even Counted in the City’s Official 18% Unemployment Rate.
Labor statistics can be very confusing, especially for the general public. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released its JuneContinue Reading
More Than Six Million Americans Dropped Out of the Labor Force Between February and May 2020 and Weren’t Counted Just Now in the Unemployment Rate
The U.S. Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics just issued its May employment report for the nation, and surprised forecastersContinue Reading
Trump Told the Truth, Sort of…Poverty & Unemployment are Down for People of Color, but Full Story is More Complicated
President Trump’s nonstop record of false claims (12,000-plus labeled false or misleading as of an August count in the Washington Post)Continue Reading
US Job Growth Continues to Show No Difference between final 7 Years of Obama and first 2 1/2 Years of Trump
United States Bureau of Labor Statistics employment growth data for the nation showed employment decline beginning during the Great RecessionContinue Reading
Still Little Change Obama to Trump Employment- 196,000/mo. for 83 mos. Obama; 203,000/mo. for 24 months-Trump
Seasonally adjusted employment in the United States January 2010-January 2019 US employment bottomed out after the recession in February 2010Continue Reading
August Employment Numbers: Pace of Job Growth From February 2010 to Last Week Has Been Same Regardless of Trump Bluster
The U.S. Labor Department just reported the nation’s payroll and unemployment rate numbers for August 2018 this past Friday, SeptemberContinue Reading
