What’s Behind a Phone Call From Newt Gingrich?
I was sitting at my computer starting to write this week's column when I received a phone call asking me to listen to an important recorded message from…
Category: Jobs
Don’t Take My Property!
The American Dream is to start a small business and develop it through years of hard work and investment. Millions of small businesses form the backbone of our…
Was Firing Employees The Issue In Homeland Security?
The Daschle Democrats (bowing to pressure from their union constituency) resisted passing the Homeland Security bill prior to the election because President George W. Bush demanded wide authority…
Will Corporations Own Our Identities?
No one should be able to own facts about other people. Our names and numbers, and also the laws we must obey, should not be property that can…
Government Discrimination Against U.S. Citizens
Do American jobhunters have to get their up-to-date employment news from The Economic Times of India? That faraway newspaper carries sensational items that somehow don't make news in…
The Global Economy “It’s Wonderful!”
The Boston Globe revealed the reason why tens of thousands of information technology (IT) jobs have been outsourced overseas in the last couple of years, and why major…
Where Are The Jobs Going?
The big argument for the tax cut Congress just passed is that it will create much-needed jobs. But one big question remains: will those jobs be created for…
H-1B Visas Cost American Jobs
Republicans in Congress will soon have the opportunity to prove whether they do the bidding of their corporate contributors or side with their hardworking voters. The corporations are…
Asbestos Is Gold For Trial Lawyers
Asbestos litigation has spun so far out of control that the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal directly from an intermediate state court. Multi-million dollar…
What’s At Stake In Education Committee Chairmanship?
As members of Congress are jockeying for chairmanships in the 107th Congress, the committees that handle big money seem to get all the headlines, but the Education chairmanship…