I think Treasury needs to step up and show more leadership here.

But the vulture funds do not want to negotiate. Instead, what do the vulture funds want? Well, they want Puerto Rico to raise taxes, cut healthcare, fire teachers, cut pensions, sell off $4 billion worth of government buildings, privatize…

The people of Puerto Rico are in a really lousy position. They have been hit hard by ten years of recession, and now they are crushed by debt they cannot repay.

Mr. President, for 20 years one of the biggest billboards in America was next to Fenway Park, facing the Massachusetts Turnpike. It had a giant number counter on it. When I was running for the Senate in 2012, I would drive past that…

The NLRB is following the law and standing up for American workers, which is exactly what the NLRB, by law, is supposed to do.

Historically, if an employer violated the rights of its workers through, for example, an illegal firing, the employer would be on the hook for damages.

the earlier change in the rule at the NLRB has just triggered a race to the bottom that has squeezed workers.

it would be devastating to the workers.

the NLRB finally acknowledged the problem that it had created back in the 1980s.

mandating a massive, inefficient and inflexible sell off of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve years in advance is just one more bad idea for how to finance government.

Today, though, some giant companies have figured out that they can hide behind complex arrangements like subcontracts or franchises to dodge their legal responsibilities toward their workers.