Immigrant Restaurant Owner Decries Los Angeles’ Cheap Eats Lists
Diep Tran, chef and owner of Los Angeles’ popular Good Girl Dinette, recently wrote a passionate opinion column that criticized food journalists... Read More
Trump’s Speech: What he Didn’t Say
The reaction to President Trump’s speech delivered to a joint session of Congress fell along party lines – no surprise. But even... Read More
IT Tycoons Take on Trump
Silicon Valley is angry at President Donald Trump. First, after putting piles of cash at the feet of Hillary Clinton, tech executives... Read More
Enforcement Comes to My Hometown; Residents Clueless about Consequences
Here in Pittsburgh, we don’t have much immigration. As I sit writing this blog post, I’m trying to remember the last time... Read More
In October, Population Increases Outpaced Job Creation
President-elect Donald Trump’s repeated promises to create jobs, and bring unemployed and under-employed Americans back into the fold resonated strongly with disenfranchised... Read More
TPP Dead, Trump Promises Future Trade Deals Will Create Jobs, Not Lose Them
TPP doomed, big win for American workers. The sovereignty-killing, anti-American worker Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is dead, according to incoming Senate Minority Leader... Read More
Last Pre-Election BLS Report is Spectacularly Underwhelming
Analysts hoped that the October economy would have generated 175,000 new jobs. The actual number the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported was... Read More
Obama Comes to My Hometown, Talks Tech, Fouls up Traffic
At a one-day conference in Pittsburgh called the White House Frontiers Conference, President Barack Obama announced that he will allocate more than... Read More
September BLS Report Ignores, as it Always Does, American Job Displacement
The September Bureau of Labor Statistics jobs report announced that the economy generated 156,000 new jobs, fewer than the 176,000 Wall Street... Read More
Shameless Caterpillar Fires 300 American Workers, Hires Foreign Nationals
U.S. workers took another hit this week when Fortune 500 giant Caterpillar announced that it will fire 300 U.S. employees, and replace... Read More