Michael O. Allen

Tag: unions

  • A Plug for Unions

    The New York Times published a story yesterday about a study (done at Harvard and elsewhere involving income data from millions of people) that found In Climbing Income Ladder, Location Matters. If you’re born in the bottom 20 percent in New York City, for instance, you’ll wind up on average around the 40th percentile. People…

  • SEIU President Mary Kay Henry at the DNC

    CHARLOTTE — The following is a transcript of a speech, as prepared for delivery, by Mary Kay Henry, International President of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), at the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday, September 4, 2012. Mary Kay Henry International President of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Hello, delegates, and hello to my…

  • ‘Joe the Liar’

    (Photo: Jim Young/Reuters) Wurzelbacher speaking to Sen. Barack Obama about taxes while the candidate campaigned near Toledo, Ohio, last week. And so “Joe the Plumber” dies a swift, ignominious death. In so doing, he enters the pantheon of fictitious Republican agitprop–such as Reagan’s apocryphal Cadillac-driving welfare queens–that have no basis in reality. “Joe the Plumber,”…

  • A sucker . . . born every minute

    First came the looting of savings and loans across the nation, which, by the standard of today’s economic failures, was a quaint little hold-up. It still gave us this delicious title: The Best Way to Rob a Bank is to Own One by William K. Black. Have you heard of a better title for anything?…