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2007 Forest Service Council Congressional Briefing Paper The administration’s “competitive” sourcing initiative is having devastating effects on the Forest Service (FS). Extraordinary time and resources are being diverted from mission work to perform competitive sourcing and related activities. The agency is literally reeling from the highly disruptive studies themselves and from the major organizational changes
Read moreApril 9, 2007 – According to the folks at the Center for American Progress, the economy has been great for those at the top but stagnant for those in the middle or lower income classes. Watch the video here.
Read moreMarch 29, 2007 – At a time when top labor, business and economic leaders are calling for more investment in education and training to close a “skills gap” among American workers, the Bush administration’s Department of Labor is proposing to cut $1.1 billion from training programs in its fiscal 2008 budget. The proposal baffled Congress
Read moreMarch 28, 2007 – Roughly 44 million U.S. jobs are low-wage jobs paying less than $11.11 an hour, according to a recent report from Inclusion and the Center for Economic Policy and Research. The report also found those jobs are less likely than higher paying work to include benefits like health insurance, retirement accounts for
Read moreMarch 16, 2007 – Continued job loss in the U.S. industrial heartland have left states such as Ohio and Michigan more vulnerable to mortgage defaults. More than 500,000 jobs have been lost in Ohio and Michigan since 2000. Those two states accounted for an out-sized 15 percent of foreclosures across the United States in January.
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