by Isaiah J. Poole | Sep 12, 2012 | Uncategorized
MORNING MESSAGE: When It Comes to the DoJ and Wall Street, Don't Call It "Justice" OurFuture.org's Richard Eskow: "If a recent report is true, the Justice Department will need a new name – and some of us will have to step up and admit we were wrong. It was clear that...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Sep 11, 2012 | Blog, Minimum Wage
The latest edition of the Economic Policy Institute's "State of Working America" report, out today, documents in sharp detail what has been for the middle-class economy a "lost decade" in which working people have fallen behind. But what's more disheartening is its...
by Jeff Bryant | Sep 11, 2012 | Blog, Education
[My guest writer today is Cynthia Liu, PhD. Cynthia launched member-supported K12NewsNetwork.com to amplify grassroots education news and provide a national platform for people to use sophisticated online organizing tools to better improve and strengthen public...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Sep 11, 2012 | Blog, Making it in America
At least one moderately good thing is coming out of the ideological sewer that is the House of Representatives these days: legislation that will require the executive branch to develop "a strategy to promote growth, sustainability, and competitiveness in the Nation's...
by Richard Eskow | Sep 11, 2012 | Blog
Both political parties have "an aversion to telling the truth," says The Washington Post. The truth? That newspaper's editors are part of a small but powerful billionaire-funded circle that seems to believe that any facts which don't support their distorted and...