Category Archives: Project for American Employment & Economic Security
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 [...]
Obscure Federal Program Aggressively Displaces American Workers
The federal government has created yet another immigration employment hurdle for U.S. science, technology, engineering [...]
We Need a Job Guarantee
Senator Bernie Sanders wants a bold new federal jobs program, and he's right.
Trump, Feds, Sanction 21st Century Slave Labor
“With President Trump, you never know.” Those were the exact words a U.S. Senate legislative [...]
NAFTA 2.0 Poses Major Threats to U.S. Workers
The Mexican and Canadian governments are pushing the White House to step up the North [...]
Amazon Must be Destroyed
Recently Brian Olsavsky, Chief Financial Officer at Amazon, stated that effective May 11, new Amazon [...]
State Department Program Shuts Out U.S. Youth from Summer Jobs
With summer just weeks away, teenagers and college students looking for seasonal employment will have [...]
Policy Watch: April 2018
This week we bring you another Policy Watch, an informational series where we aim to [...]
James Howard Kunstler Talks Current Events From Comey to Syria to Zuckerberg
I had the pleasure to sit down with James Howard Kunstler, author of such notable [...]
Fracking Protests Hit Pennsylvania Capital
On Friday, April 13, more than one hundred protesters from across the state, even some [...]
Are Teacher Strikes a Growing Trend?
America is in a new “gilded age”, only without the mass child labor. We are [...]
Dismal March Labor Report Deflates Jobs Recovery Hype
The March Bureau of Labor Statistics report was a disappointment with the economy adding only 103,000 [...]
A Californian Warns: ‘Don’t Go West, Young Man’
California, the preferred destination for travelers who took publisher Horace Greeley’s long-ago suggestion to “Go [...]
Policy Watch: Gun Debate Rages in Congress
It is once more time for a new edition of Policy Watch, where we bring [...]
Adding Immigrants to Bolster an Aging America is a Ponzi Scheme
Good and possibly great news: the U.S. birthrate continues to trend lower, now at the [...]
Official Blows Whistle on Illegal Immigrants Working on SoCal Construction Sites
We sat down for an incognito interview with Blaine Taylor (not his real name), a [...]
This Philadelphia Judge Has a Plan to Help, Not Hurt, Prisoners
Our country is in dire need of criminal justice reform. Crucial failings in our prison [...]
Policy Watch: Veterans in Need
We’re back once more for another edition of policy watch: Capitol Hill has been slow [...]
As Illegal Immigration Declines, Employers Forced to Raise Wages
A new Center for Migration Studies (CMS) report showed that between 2010 and 2016, illegal immigration [...]
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to DC: California Democrats Shake Things Up
“Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; [...]
The Scars of Lancaster County
For over three years the citizens of Lancaster County have been fighting the construction of [...]
Trump’s New Budget Would Gut American Institutions
President Trump’s new budget proposal, released February 12, includes measures to end federal funding for [...]
California Dystopia: No Man’s Farmland
Those of us who live in California and oppose illegal immigration are often met with [...]
Despite Wall Street Applause, January BLS Reflects Lingering Wage Woes
Wall Street hailed the January 2018 Bureau of Labor Statistics report as a big winner. [...]
Policy Watch, February 2018
This is the beginning of an ongoing series we’d like to do called Policy Watch, [...]
In Political Dynasty, a Kennedy and a Trump are the Same
This morning, I read a story on how all eyes are on Representative Joe Kennedy [...]
Pennsylvania Supreme Court Rules Congressional Map Unconstitutional
Late afternoon on Monday, January 22nd, The Pennsylvania Supreme Court released a ruling on a [...]
MLK Day and the State of the Promise
It is important to reflect on our history as we enter times of great turmoil. [...]
Record Immigration Means More Job Competition for Americans
A new report that drew from Census Bureau and Department of Homeland Security data found [...]