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Republicans Want to Avoid Defense Trigger By Firing Other Federal Employees
Six Republican Senators unveiled their legislation yesterday to roll back the defense trigger from the debt limit deal, replacing the $600 billion in savings with other cuts. However, this is not a...
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Arizona Anti-Union Laws Failing to Attract Required Votes
When I first heard about the proposed anti-union laws moving through the Arizona legislature, I was fairly resigned to their passage. Arizona has huge Republican majorities in its legislature, and they...
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Supreme Court Continues Its Assault on the Regulatory State
Everyone is looking forward to the three days of arguments next week in the Supreme Court on the individual mandate and the health care law. But regardless of that outcome, the court is well on its way...
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“Civil War” in Wisconsin Could Also Be Among Democrats
Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett’s first ad of the gubernatorial recall election in Wisconsin begins by asking the question, “isn’t it time to end the civil war in Wisconsin?” He was referring to Scott...
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The Public Sector-Private Sector Electoral Brouhaha
The fight I was happy to miss while at Netroots Nation concerned the President’s comments about the private sector “doing fine” relative to the public sector. Because Obama didn’t explicitly use the...
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Over 100,000 Teacher Jobs Lost in Last 12 Months
The most important chart when thinking about the economies under George W. Bush and Barack Obama can be seen above. It compares the first-term job numbers of the two Presidents. Both of them endured...
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Cuts to the Public Workforce Disproportionately Hit African-Americans
Mitt Romney spoke before the NAACP today, and the response was, shall we say, mixed. Vowing to repeal Obamacare in front of an African-American audience may have been a miscalculation. But Romney’s...
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Government Has Smallest Workforce Since 1968
We’ve been talking about how this Great Recession, and its aftermath, represents a private-sector recovery and a public-sector depression. We haven’t seen government payrolls get slashed this deeply...
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Greece Proposes Another Austerity Budget, Its Lenders Decide It’s Not Cruel...
The Greek government submitted a draft budget for next year that would only further increase the pain and suffering directed at the population, despite depression conditions. But the European leaders...
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Federal Employees Paid Well Below Private Sector Counterparts
You often hear that union workers, particularly federal workers, are “overpaid.” You can produce a study making this case. But it will ultimately be an apples-to-oranges study. If you compare organized...
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