by Isaiah J. Poole | Mar 9, 2012 | Blog
Saturday is the two-year anniversary of the infamous Citizens United ruling by the Supreme Court that allowed corporations to spend unlimited amounts of money on political campaigns. Since then, our democracy has been drowning in a tsunami of corporate special...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Mar 9, 2012 | Blog
The "success" of the 1996 "welfare reform" pact between President Clinton and congressional conservatives is an hardy piece of conventional wisdom that you will hear repeated, and usually unchallenged, in the rare times that poverty comes up in the political...
by Bill Scher | Mar 9, 2012 | Uncategorized
Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what progressives need to effect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs, health care, green energy, financial reform, affordable education and retirement security. MORNING MESSAGE: Jobs Report No...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Mar 9, 2012 | Blog, Economy
There is modestly good news for jobseekers in the February jobs report today from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, with the economy creating 227,000 new jobs and the unemployment rate holding steady at 8.3 percent. But once again the Obama administration and Democrats...
by Bill Scher | Mar 8, 2012 | Blog
A pattern has emerged in the Republican primaries, Romney wins among Republican voters with six-figure incomes and loses among Republican voters with five-figure incomes. We have a class war, and it's inside the Republican Party. What has happened? What is it about...
