A Green American Dream
Our Executive Director, Chris Chafe, and Green for All President Van Jones have a guest post up today at Anderson...
February 2009 Archives
February 27, 2009
February 25, 2009
Principal and the Art of the Non-Denial Denial
Hey kids! Remember how I told you a couple days ago how we had urged the Treasury Department to...
Economists Agree: Employee Free Choice Key Step Towards Economic Recovery
I’ve made fun of economists in this space before, but they’re not all idiots. In fact, there are some...
The Big Speech
President Barack Obama gave his don’t-call-it-a-State-of-the-Union address last night. Here’s the video: Embedded video from CNN Video We have lived...
February 24, 2009
Congratulations, Madam Secretary!
The long, long wait is over: Hilda Solis has just been confirmed by the Senate for the office of...
No Public Funds For Private Interest Lobbying
As you know if you’ve been reading this blog for a while, we here at Change to Win have been...
February 23, 2009
We Need an Economy That Works for Everyone Again
While discussing proposals for a 9/11-style commission to investigate the root causes of the financial crisis on This Week with...
February 20, 2009
The World At Work
The Boston Globe’s always-excellent photojournalism blog The Big Picture, which presents a roundup of gorgeous large-format pictures every day,...
This, Not So Much
Yesterday I posted about Lansing Mayor Verg Bernero’s full-throated defense of working people. But who knew that so shortly after...
February 19, 2009
More Like This, Please
Virg Bernero, Mayor of Lansing, Michigan, pushes back on a clueless Fox News anchor-bot pushing right-wing, anti-worker talking points: Two...
February 18, 2009
Unions Are Good for the Economy
A new report from the Center for American Progress Action Fund shows all the ways that unions are good for...
February 12, 2009
In Which I Explain to the Wall Street Journal How Free Speech Works
Take a look at that picture. Sure looks like a nice place, huh? It’s a plush Florida getaway on...
Solis Nomination Clears Committee
After seven weeks of delay, there’s finally progress on the nomination of Rep. Hilda Solis to be the nation’s...
February 9, 2009
Free Hilda!
It’s kind of appalling that seven weeks after President Obama nominated Hilda Solis for the office of Secretary of...
February 6, 2009
Another Month, Another Dismal Employment Report
… to the tune of nearly 600,000 more jobs lost in January: Nonfarm payroll employment fell sharply in January (-598,000)...
February 5, 2009
Show Your Support for Employee Free Choice
Hey kids! Do you want to use your blog or social networking profile to show your friends just how widespread...
February 4, 2009
Employee Free Choice Rally Pictures!
Well, the Employee Free Choice Act rally I told you about this morning was a huge success. Thousands of workers...
TODAY: Rally at the Capitol for Employee Free Choice
If you’re in DC and are looking for something to do with your lunch hour, swing by Capitol Hill and...
February 3, 2009
Good Jobs and Green Jobs: Which Road to Take?
A few days ago, I wrote about how green jobs are not automatically good jobs: The old thinking was...