Specialty metals manufacturer ATI reinvented itself in recent years. Instead of serving as a vital organ in the dozen communities where it operates mills, it decided to be a boil, blight -- a bane upon civic life in six states. Communities once cherished their ATI specialty...
Confronted with a dire situation, a world power last week took strong action to secure its domestic jobs and manufacturing. That was China. Not the United States. China diminished the value of its currency. This gave its exporting industries a boost while simultaneously blocking imports. The move...
Donald Trump says exactly what the GOP believes. It’s a simple axiom: personal wealth accumulation is everything. Republican Party officials believe individuals like The Donald attain riches through their own guts, glory and gumption with not an iota of aid from community, country or, frankly,...
Jeb! Bush, a boy born to wealth and privilege, whose family owns not a home but a compound of dwellings in Kennebunkport, Maine, and whose wife plunked down$25,600 for one pair of earrings, lectured last week that Americans should work longer hours. If Americans would just...
Businesses always find big bucks for the boss. He wants a raise; he gets it. No problem. For workers whose sweat of the brow produces profits, well, somehow there’s never a cent for them. In fact, last week when President Obama proposed making more workers eligible...
In a close vote last week, a majority in the U.S. House chose to continue glomming onto the same tired old broken-down trade tactics that have closed American factories, cost American jobs and caused massive trade deficits. The majority voted to sustain for the next six...
Americans know the ugly truth about money in politics. Though the wealthy conceal payoffs through dark money deposits into political pockets, it’s no secret to the American public that the rich are buying the government. The extent of Americans’ cynicism about purchased politicians was revealed last...
Confirmed: Leslie Marshall will be speaking at LibertyFest NYC 2015! Leslie Marshall is a Fox News Contributor seen weekly on “The Kelly File“, “America’s Newsroom” and “The Real Story w/ Gretchen Carlson”. You can also see Leslie regularly on “The O’Reilly Factor”. She hosts “The Leslie...
It’s all the rage now for Republican presidential candidates to spurn the Royal Romney approach and, instead, fawn over workers. When former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum announced his presidential bid last week, he did it from a factory floor and called for increasing the minimum wage....
Kansas Workers Unite for Fairness and Respect (WICHITA, Kan.) – American Red Cross workers who collect blood throughout the state of Kansas have voted overwhelmingly, 64-13, to join Teamsters Local 795 in Wichita, Kan. There are 91 workers in the bargaining unit. Stephanie Daniels, a three-year Collection...