The National Labor Relations Board is effectively shut down, unable to do its job. This is a "nullification" by Republicans of laws that protect workers and companies, in exchange for campaign help from the 1%.

There is a warning here for President Obama and all other candidates of either party running for office in 2012: The public wants to see plans to bring back American manufacturing. The public wants to go into stores and see "Made in America" again.

Last month I wrote about a bill before Congress that would both help fight the offshoring of call-center jobs and protect consumers. Now the countries where we have been sending those jobs are organizing a lobbying campaign to fight the bill.

The justification for a special tax rate for gains from investing capital is supposed to be to provide an incentive to invest. But there is already a really good incentive to invest: to make a bundle of cash.

President Obama's "Jobs Council" issued a report calling for fewer regulations and lower corporate tax rates. This doesn't have to be a bad idea.

The spiral-to-the-bottom and inequality we are suffering is not an inevitable result of globalization, it is what happens when we don't hold cheaters ...

We have to move to a "we are in this together" understanding of ourselves and our country if we want to bring back the shared prosperity we used to have.

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