Fool Me Twice (31 page)

18.
Randal C. Archibold, “Border Plan Will Address Harm Done at Fence Site,”
New York Times
, January 16, 2009,
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/17/us/17border.html?_r=2
.

19.
Marshall Fitz, “Immigration for Innovation: How to Attract the World's Best Talent While Ensuring America Remains the Land of Opportunity for All,” Center for American Progress, January 2012,
http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2012/01/pdf/dwwsp_immigration.pdf
.

20.
“Latinos Pin Hopes of Immigration Reform on Obama. After Helping Barack Obama Win the Election, Latinos Seek to Remind Him to Enact Comprehensive Immigration Reform,” McClatchy Newspapers, November 24, 2008,
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/24/latinos-immigration-reform-obama
; “Patricia Madrid Named to Obama's National Latino Advisory Council,” RootsWire, August 22, 2008,
http://rootswire.org/conventionblog/patricia-madrid-named-obamas-national-latino-advisory-council
.

21.
“Eliseo Medina Speaks on Immigrants for Votes [June 2, 2009],” YouTube, added January 25, 2010,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AK7K0itgQt0
.

22.
Ibid.

23.
Tova Andrea Wang, Youjin B. Kim, “From Citizenship to Voting: Improving Registration for New Americans,” Demos, December 19, 2011,
http://www.demos.org/sites/default/files/publications/fromcitizenshipto voting_demos_2.pdf
.

1.
Transcript of President Barack Obama's 2012 State of the Union Address, House of Representatives, U.S. Capitol, January 24, 2012,
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/01/24/transcript_of_president_obamas_2012_state_of_the_union_address_112893.html
.

2.
Mark Landler, “Obama Challenges Congress on Job Plan,”
New York Times
, September 8, 2011,
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/09/us/politics/09payroll.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all
.

3.
“The Progressive Promise,” Congressional Progressive Caucus,
http://cpc.grijalva.house.gov/index.cfm?sectionid=63§iontree=2,63
. Among those principles are: economic justice; access to affordable, high-quality health care for all; guaranteed Social Security benefits for all; and environmental justice, including increasing construction of “green” buildings and renewable and “green” energy, with at least three million new jobs.

4.
About, Socialist International,
http://www.socialistinternational.org/about.cfm. Members, Socialist International, http://www.socialistinterna tional.org/viewArticle.cfm?ArticlePageID=931
.

5.
“What is Democratic Socialism? Questions and Answers from the Democratic Socialists of America,” Democratic Socialists of America,
http://www.dsausa.org/pdf/widemsoc.pdf
.

6.
“Stand Up to Wall Street. We Want Jobs, Not Budget Cuts,” Democratic Socialists of America, 2011,
http://www.dsausa.org/docs/Jobs.html
.

7.
Ibid.

8.
Profile: Demos, “Discover the Networks,”
http://www.discoverthenet works.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7690
.

9.
David Callahan and Tamara Draut,
Help Wanted. America Needs a Better Jobs Plan. A Response to the Obama Jobs Speech
, Demos, September 8, 2011,
http://www.demos.org/sites/default/files/publications/HelpWanted_ResponseToObamasJobsPlan_Demos.pdf
.

10.
Steven Greenhouse, “The Challenge of Creating Good Jobs,”
Economix/New York Times
, September 7, 2011,
http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/07/the-challenge-of-creating-good-jobs
/.

11.
Ibid.

12.
Bill Baden, “The Ranks of the Underemployed Continue to Grow,” Money/USNews.com, October 19, 2011,
http://money.usnews.com/money/careers/articles/2011/10/19/the-ranks-of-the-underemployed-continue-to-grow
.

13.
Ben Peck and Amy Traub,
Worth Working For: Strategies for Turning Bad Jobs into Quality Employment
, Demos, October 2011,
http://www.demos.org/sites/default/files/publications/worthworkingfor_goodjobs_Demos.pdf
.

14.
H.R.3192 Paid Family and Medical Leave Act of 2005, introduced June 30, 2005, by sponsor Rep. Pete Stark (D-CA),
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h109-3192
.

15.
Peck and Traub,
Worth Working For
.

16.
Steven Greenhouse, “The Challenge of Creating Good Jobs,” September 7, 2011. H.R.283 Living American Wage (LAW) Act of 2011 introduced January 12, 2011, sponsored by Rep. Al Green (D-TX),
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c112:H.R.283
. The bill asks for the minimum wage to be calculated based on the federal poverty threshold for a family of 2, as determined by the Census Bureau. At a minimum, the minimum wage would be adjusted every four years “so that a person working for such a wage may earn an annual income that is not less than 15 percent higher than the Federal poverty threshold for a family of 2, as determined by the Census Bureau,” and the minimum wage “should be set at a level high enough to allow 2 full-time minimum wage workers to earn an income above the national housing wage.”

17.
Donald R. Stabile,
The Living Wage: Lessons from the History of Economic Thought
(Northampton, MA.: Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc., 2008), 109.

18.
Steven Malanga, “How the ‘Living Wage' Sneaks Socialism into Cities,”
City Journal
, Winter 2003,
http://www.city-journal.org/html/13_1_how_the_living_wage.html
.

19.
“ACORN People's Platform,” 1990,
http://web.archive.org/web/20010615002306/www.acorn.org/people%27s_platform.html
.

20.
Profile: Wade Rathke, ChiefOrganizer.org,
http://chieforganizer.org/biography
/.

21.
“The Rebranding of ACORN,” Judicial Watch, August 22, 2011,
http://www.judicialwatch.org/files/documents/2011/acornspecialreport 08222011.pdf
.

22.
Malanga, “How the ‘Living Wage' Sneaks Socialism into Cities.

23.
Callahan and Draut,
Help Wanted
.

24.
Peck and Traub,
Worth Working For
.

25.
Labor Board v. General Motors Corp
. 373 U.S. 734 (1963), Certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, No. 404, Argued April 18, 1963, Decided June 3, 1963,
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cgi-bin/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=373&invol=734
.

26.
Sam Hananel, “Obama May Make ‘Living Wage' Factor in Contracts,” Associated Press/
Washington Post
, February 26, 2010,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/26/AR2010022600092.html
.

27.
Bruce Western and Jake Rosenfeld, “Unions, Norms, and the Rise in American Wage Inequality,” Harvard University, March, 2011,
http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/soc/faculty/western/pdfs/Unions_Norms_and_Wage_Inequality.pdf
.

28.
Brittany Mayer-Schulur, “The Resurgence of Labor Law under the Obama Administration,”
The Hennepin Lawyer
, August 25, 2009,
http://hennepin.timberlakepublishing.com/article.asp?article=1352&paper=1&cat=147
.

29.
John Wojcik, “Many Workers to Benefit in 2012 from New Obama Rules,”
PeoplesWorld.com
, January 2, 2012,
http://peoplesworld.org/many-workers-to-benefit-in-2012-from-new-obama-rules
/.

30.
Jim Abrams, “Unions Look to Obama to Help Advance Their Agenda,” Associated Press, November 10, 2008,
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2008-11-10-3562954163_x.htm
.

31.
Callahan and Draut,
Help Wanted
.

32.
Richard Berman, “Employee Free Choice Act May Backfire on Unions,”
Washington Examiner
, February 2009,
http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/2009/02/employee-free-choice-act-may-backfire-unions/104955
.

33.
Callahan and Draut,
Help Wanted
. On June 7, 2012, several members of the Congressional Black Caucus, led by Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-IL), introduced the Catching Up to 1968 Act to raise the minimum wage to $10 an hour.

34.
Linda Gorman, “Minimum Wages,”
The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics
, 2nd ed.,
http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/MinimumWages.html
.

35.
Ed Morrissey, “Unemployment Stays at 8.3%, 227K Jobs Added,”
Hot Air
, March 9, 2012,
http://hotair.com/archives/2012/03/09/unemployment-stays-at-8-3-227k-jobs-added/?utm_source=co2hog
.

36.
Employment Situation Summary, Bureau of Labor Statistics, released March 9, 2012,
http://bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm
.

37.
Daniel Helper, “Valerie Jarrett: ‘People Who Receive That Unemployment Check Go Out and Spend It and Help Stimulate the Economy,'”
Weekly Standard
, February 22, 2012,
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/valerie-jarrett-people-who-receive-unemployment-check-go-out-and-spend-it-and-help-stimulate-economy_631716.html?utm_source=co2hog
.

38.
Alan S. Binder and Mark Zandi, “Stimulus Worked,”
Finance & Development
, December 2010,
https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2010/12/pdf/Blinder.pdf
.

39.
Alan S. Binder and Mark Zandi, “How the Great Recession Was Brought to an End,” July 27, 2010, 16,
http://www.economy.com/mark-zandi/documents/End-of-Great-Recession.pdf
.

40.
Andrew Fieldhouse and Ethan Pollack, “Debt Ceiling Deal Threatens Deep Job Losses and Lower Long-Run Economic Growth,”
Economic Policy Institute and The Century Foundation Issue Brief #311
, August 4, 2011, 2–3,
http://web.epi-data.org/temp727/EPI-TCF_IssueBrief_311.pdf
.

41.
“New Developments on Federal Unemployment Extensions,” State of California Employment Development Department, updated January 31, 2012,
http://edd.ca.gov/Unemployment/Federal_Unemployment_Insurance_Extensions.htm
.

42.
“Not In Labor Force,” Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, Updated March 9, 2012,
http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/LNS15000000
.

43.
Doug Ross, “Lies, Damn Lies, and Obama's Unemployment Numbers,”
Doug Ross Journal
, February 3, 2012,
http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2012/02/lies-damn-lies-and-obamas-unemployment.html
.

44.
Tyler Durden, “Implied Unemployment Rate Rises to 11.5%, Spread to Propaganda Number Surges to 30 Year High,” ZeroHedge.com, February 3, 2012,
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/implied-unemployment-rate-rises-115-spread-propaganda-number-surges-30-year-high
.

45.
Jim Pethokoukis, “Why the Official 8.3 Percent Unemployment Rate Is a Phony Number—and What It Means for Obama's Reelection,”
American Enterprise
/American Enterprise Institute, February 3, 2012,
http://blog.american.com/2012/02/why-the-official-8-3-percent-unemployment-rate-is-a-phony-number-and-what-it-means-for-obamas-reelection
/; HPS Jobs Fact Sheet 2012, Hamilton Place Strategies, January 2012,
http://www.hamiltonplacestrategies.com
/.

46.
John Crudele, “Rosy Report a Ruse. An 8.3% Jobless Rate?”
New York Post
, February 3, 2012,
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/rosy_report_ruse_LsXHVA9epmxGzTBHeOW6WP
.

47.
Callahan and Draut,
Help Wanted
.

48.
Seth Harris, “Work Sharing: A Success Story,” U.S. Department of Labor blog, September 14, 2011,
http://social.dol.gov/blog/work-sharing-a-success-story
/.

49.
“Work Sharing Should Be Part of the President's Job Program,” Center for Economic and Policy Research, September 7, 2011,
http://www.cepr.net/index.php/press-releases/press-releases/work-sharing-should-be-part-of-the-presidents-job-program
.

50.
Profile: Center for Economic and Policy Research,
Discover the Networks
,
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7226
.

51.
Dean Baker,
Work Sharing: The Quick Route Back to Full Employment
, Center for Economic and Policy Research, June 2011,
http://www.cepr.net/documents/publications/work-sharing-2011-06.pdf
.

52.
International Labor Comparisons, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, last updated February 2, 2012,
http://www.bls.gov/ilc/intl_unemployment_rates_monthly.htm#Rchart1
.

53.
Dean Baker, “How Larry Summers' Memo Hobbled Obama's Stimulus Plan. The Obama Administration's Economic Blueprint Was Fatally Flawed: It Led to a Weak Stimulus and Premature Deficit Reduction,”
The Guardian
(UK), February 24, 2012,
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2012/jan/24/larry-summers-memo-hobbled-obamas-stimulus
.

54.
Ibid.

55.
Callahan and Draut,
Help Wanted
.

56.
Ibid.

57.
Profile: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, SorosFiles.com, updated October 2011,
http://sorosfiles.com/soros/2011/10/center-on-budget-and-policy-priorities.html
.

58.
Callahan and Draut,
Help Wanted
.

59.
Ibid.

60.
Profile: Institute for Policy Studies, “Discover the Networks,”
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6991
.

61.
John Cavanagh and David Korten, “A Main Street Jobs Agenda,” Institute
for Policy Studies, November 28, 2011,
http://www.ips-dc.org/articles/a_main_street_jobs_agenda
.