Category Archives: Project for American Employment & Economic Security
The Neoliberal Abandonment of America’s Industrial Cities
In a recent fit of pique, after having been attacked for weeks by U.S. Rep. [...]
85,000 H-1B Visas To Displace Americans from Their Jobs
The race for cheap tech labor is over, at least for fiscal year 2020. On [...]
The Green New Deal – Line By Line
Steven Lamb and Kevin Lynn separate fact from fiction with regard to House Resolution 109 [...]
Pandemic Preparedness – An Interview with Physician and Virologist Dr. Steven Hatfill
On Sunday morning, February 10, 2019 Kevin Lynn sat down with Dr. Steven Hatfill, a [...]
Los Angeles in A Time of Typhus
Shockingly, Los Angeles, one of the greatest cities in the United States is experiencing a [...]
Donald Trump Zig-Zags on ‘Hire American’ Promise
President Donald Trump told reporters he wants technology companies to import and hire more foreign [...]
Fed OPT Program Hits Record High; U.S. Worker Displacement Unabated
Optional Practical Training (OPT), a temporary employment program for foreign undergraduate and grad students on [...]
Into the Weeds on Wages
The Economic Policy Institute, a respected nonpartisan, nonprofit Washington, D.C., organization, recently published a report [...]
Politicon October 2018 Coverage
IFSPP covered POLITICON, a wild and raucous SoCal event that features high-profile players in politics [...]
Do We Want to Win Elections? If So, We Must REPENT & REBUILD
Arizona Senator John McCain died this week. Progressives and Democrats have been issuing a series [...]
Chemical Abortion Abounds But Still Not Freely Enough
My wife, Sally’s sister, Judith Kahrl, the founder of Grandmothers for Reproductive Rights(GRR!!) had her July [...]
Policy Watch: Congress Locked in Spending Battles
As we leave July behind and move forward into August, we approach the end of [...]
Voter Purges Are A Reality, And What You Can Do
A new report by the Brennan Center shows that millions of registered voters were purged from [...]
Massachusetts: Shouldering the Burden of Tech Layoffs
With a strong economy and many technology jobs, Massachusetts is shouldering the burden of tech [...]
How to Help Puerto Rico Today
Almost a year after the devastating Hurricane Maria, reporters are still trying to discover the [...]
Congress in Chaos as Backlog Builds Up
Congress, as always, has been busy lately. Or at least the House of Representatives: Of [...]
A New Standard for Law Enforcement Bias. . .
Yesterday, I was looking through coverage of the Congressional Hearing where Mr. Strzok of the [...]
Can We Save the Supreme Court?
Trump just got a nice present before a heated midterm election. On the final day [...]
It’s Time For Marijuana Decriminalization
Last week, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer introduced legislation to decriminalize marijuana on a federal [...]
Fourth of July And The Specter of The Fourth Turning
Back in the 1980’s I was a counterintelligence officer for the Army, and early on [...]
Policy Watch – Immigration Bills Flounder
It’s almost the end of June and here we are with another edition of Policy [...]
The “Space Force” is Not What We Need Right Now
“Brave cadets of the United States Space Force Academy are signing up today to fight [...]
Ranked Choice Voting Empowers Voters
Maine is undergoing an experiment in their elections, one which has never been tried on [...]
Fracking is a Waste of Money and Nature
As we acknowledge World Environment Day and World Oceans Day this week – days to recognize the [...]
For World Environment Day, We Need to Act on Plastic
June 5th is World Environment Day, and later this week on June 8th is World Oceans Day, [...]
Policy Watch: Protect and Serve?
Congress has taken its Memorial Day recess, but there is still legislation in Congress that [...]
Thomas Frank on Populism
“Populism is America’s way of expressing class antagonism. It is a tradition of rhetorical protest [...]
Mueller Investigation Shows We All Want Another Watergate
I have for the better part of a year followed the story of Robert Mueller’s [...]
We Need a Job Guarantee
Senator Bernie Sanders wants a bold new federal jobs program, and he's right.
Amazon Must be Destroyed
Recently Brian Olsavsky, Chief Financial Officer at Amazon, stated that effective May 11, new Amazon [...]