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Category Archives: Economy
The Children Are The Future
video 1.5 minutes NPR’s Weekend Edition last Saturday included a story on the seperation of a Guatemalan mother and her 3 year old son. Through an interpreter the NPR host, Scott Simon, conducted the interview. Near the end of the interview … Continue reading
Posted in #trumpresistance, 2018 Election Campaign, Blog for Iowa, Children, Climate Action, Climate Change, Economy, Education, Environment, Health Care & Medicare, Medicare, Obamacare, Social Security
Tagged Betsy DeVos, DACA, Jeff Kaufmann
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David Cay Johnston: How Soybeans Explain What’s Really Going On In Trump’s Trade War
The Truth Behind His Economic Lies video 2 minutes If David Cay Johnston’s dcreport.org is not on you reading list it surely should be. David Cay Johnston has been one of the fiercest critics of the the trickle down economy. At … Continue reading
Almost 80% Of US Workers Live From Paycheck To Paycheck. Here’s Why
Robert Reich is one of the best analyzers and commentators on current American affairs. As the former Secretary of Labor, when Reich speaks on labor everyone should listen. In last Sunday’s Guardian newspaper online Reich analyzes the plight of the American … Continue reading
Posted in #trumpresistance, 2018 Election Campaign, Blog for Iowa, economic inequality, Economic Justice, Economy, Labor
Tagged Republican tax cuts, Robert Reich, wages
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Rural Iowa Not A Hegemony
As “progress” causes big changes stresses start to show. Few can write as well as Art Cullen the Pulitzer Prize winning editor at the Storm Lake Times. Fewer still seem to be able to understand the changes that are going on … Continue reading
Posted in Blog for Iowa, Economy, Farming
Tagged Art Cullen, farm economy, Storm Lake Times
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Cindy Axne: Coming On Strong
There were some surprising fund raising numbers for Iowa’s congressional candidate released early in the week. Perhaps one of the biggest surprises was Cindy Axne in Iowa’s 3rd district outraising incumbent David Young by over $100,000. Perhaps even as surprising … Continue reading
Posted in 2018 Election Campaign, Blog for Iowa, Economy, Education, Farming, Health Care & Medicare, Social Security
Tagged Cindy Axne
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Telling Stat: US Birth Rate Falling
Amid all the crap about Dear Leader that dominates our news media day in and day out, there are sometimes some extremely important stories that slide almost unnoticed during the news cycle. Such was the story last week when the … Continue reading
Posted in #trumpresistance, Blog for Iowa, Children, economic inequality, Economic Justice, Economy
Tagged falling US birth rate
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Ready For $4 Gas?
One way to tell Republicans are in office is that the price of gas skyrockets. Remember Operation Desert Storm? Zoom! Remember invading Iraq? Zoom! It takes a little while to cook up a destabilizing scenario in some world hot spot … Continue reading
Posted in #trumpresistance, 2018 Election Campaign, Blog for Iowa, Economy, Trump
Tagged oil prices, Russia
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Killing The Economy Part 3: Inequality
One of the frequently noted similarities of the economy between today and and just prior to the 1929 collapse is the strikingly similar concentration of wealth into a few hands. We almost bit the bullet of a major economic collapse … Continue reading
Posted in #trumpresistance, Blog for Iowa, economic inequality, Economy, Iowa legislature 2018, Labor
Tagged Democratic proposals, horse poo economics, Mick Mulvaney
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Killing The Economy Part 2 Trade And Tariffs
About a month ago – it is almost hard to keep track of time in the current rush of news – Iowa suddenly found itself smack in the middle of a trade war that it had nothing to do with. … Continue reading
Posted in #trumpresistance, Blog for Iowa, Economic Justice, Economy
Tagged dairy, EU, Mexico, NAFTA, tariff, Trade
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Killing The Economy Part 1 – The Farm Bill
Got this email from Iowa CCI Thursday looking for stories from farmers concerning the new Farm Bill that is weaving its way through the Republican controlled US House and US Senate. If you haven’t heard, this bill has many repugnant … Continue reading
Posted in #trumpresistance, Blog for Iowa, economic inequality, Economic Justice, Economy, Farming
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