As Goodyear began phasing out a tire plant in Alabama and shifting operations to a cheaper facility in Mexico a few years ago, Jeremy Hughes worried about the loss of his livelihood and the impact on his hometown. Hughes also worried about the future of America. Sooner or later, he realized, the decline of U.S. …
Why Rebuilding America’s Manufacturing Muscle Is Essential Read More »
Today, Abraham Lincoln would have to say America’s got a government of the people by the corporations, for the corporations. That’s because American corporations are in control, exercising all the Supreme Court-granted rights and privileges of personhood while shirking all of the responsibilities of citizenship. The proposed trade agreement with South Korea illustrates corporate control of government for profit. Americans hate the FTA that will cost jobs and increase the trade deficit. But corporations, which stand to profit from it, are insisting on its passage and succeeded in spinning the break down of talks in Seoul as a failure for Obama.
People and planet should come before profits, but the proposed Panama trade plan would mean greed rules. The Senate Finance committee is meeting tomorrow to discuss the proposed Panama Trade Promotion Agreement. Top trade negotiator Ron Kirk is trying to ram through this agreement by July 1, when the Panamanian head of state Martin Torrijos …
An Agreement That Isn’t Good for Anyone: The Panama Trade Promotion Agreement Read More »
Madeline Messa is a 3L at Syracuse University College of Law. She graduated from Penn State with a degree in journalism. With her legal research and writing for Workplace Fairness, she strives to equip people with the information they need to be their own best advocate.
