Democracy for Delaware

By Vi Ransel
5/21/09
Protectionism. Capitalists were all for it before they were against it. When manufacturing took place in America, when they paid workers enough to buy the products they produced, adding a tariff/tax/fee on to the cost of imported goods made by these same manufacturers’ competitors overseas, was fine. It just made sense. It was […]

By DeNeen L. Brown
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, May 18, 2009
You have to be rich to be poor.
That’s what some people who have never lived below the poverty line don’t understand.
Put it another way: The poorer you are, the more things cost. More in money, time, hassle, exhaustion, menace. This is a fact of life […]

Wanted to alert everyone to the release of a new report from Cornell’s Kate Bronfenbrenner, “No Holds Barred,” that details the growing problem of management tactics that block workers’ ability to form unions.
here’s the report:
http://www.aflcio.org/joinaunion/voiceatwork/efca/upload/No_Holds_Barred.pdf
and our blog post on it:
http://blog.aflcio.org/2009/05/20/corporate-anti-worker-tactics-on-the-rise/
A landmark study examining workers’ freedom to form unions and bargain shows that the problems the […]

From the Los Angeles Times
Obama asks Congress for credit card reform bill
The president, speaking in New Mexico, decries what he calls abusive practices on rates and penalties. But he also cautions consumers against accumulating debt.
By Peter Nicholas
May 15, 2009
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-obama-newmexico15-2009may15,0,2449061.story
Reporting from Rio Rancho, N.M. - President Obama today called on Congress to send him […]

GOP barely hangs on in Maryland
Republicans all but extinct in the Northeast
By Paul West
May 4, 2009
Washington
Even before Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter switched to the Democratic side, Republican leaders were warning that their national party was in danger of becoming a regional one.
Specter’s departure, part of a larger Republican shift away from the Northeast, has left […]