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Teachers Confront DeVos In Closed Session "You're the one creating the 'bad' schools": nation's top teachers denounce Devos during closed-door session. Common Dreams: "In the midst of teacher uprisings in multiple states that over recent months have drawn hundreds of...
Our Opioid Crisis Needs More Than Crocodile Tears
U.S. Senate and House committees have approved competing bills that purport to address the “opioid crisis.” Since these are consensus measures, it’s no surprise that the legislation is a catchall of small ideas. Sure, progressives should enact whatever they can. But...
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U.S. Prolongs Uncertainty Over Tariffs US delays decision on tariffs for EU, prolonging uncertainty. U.S. News: "The U.S. government will take another 30 days to decide whether to impose tariffs on imports of steel and aluminum from the European Union, Canada, and...
Protect the Workers Who Save Our Lives
Working in a hospital, nursing home or ambulance is dangerous. Sometimes fatally so. It’s not so much that a worker might catch a communicable disease, although that happens. The real danger comes from violent patients, volatile family members and sometimes even...
We Must Stop the Assembly Line of Conservative Judges
“Reining in the activist judges is an enormous job, but the American people are up to the task,” says Carrie Serevino, the former clerk to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas who now heads the Judicial Crisis Network (JCN). The JCN is a right-wing lobby that...
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Arizona Teacher Walkout Gathers Steam Teachers say 'frustration' over decade of cuts to education is fueling nationwide revolt. ABC: "On most Mondays, Stacy Masciangelo, a teacher in Mesa, Arizona, would be in her classroom teaching 33 junior high school students...
Pyrrhic Party: The Democratic Establishment’s War on Progressives
By supporting corporate-friendly candidates and policies, Congressional Democratic leaders are be moving closer and closer toward open warfare with their party’s base. There is a real need to raise money, of course. But the party’s leaders have chosen to raise and...
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Teacher Protests Spread To Arizona, Colorado Teacher protests spread to Colorado as Arizona strike begins. NYM: "The strike announced by Arizona teachers last week formally began today with no clear signs of any resolution of their dispute with Republican lawmakers in...
Kentucky Teachers' Walkout Catalyzes More Advocacy
Headlines about teachers' strikes may have moved on from Kentucky and Oklahoma to Arizona and Colorado, but the uprisings these wildcat teachers started have not, according to numerous sources I've spoken with in Louisville – Kentucky's largest school district, with...
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HUD Wants More Rent, Work Rules For Poor Tenants HUD wants low-income families on housing assistance to pay more rent. CNN: "Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson announced Wednesday a proposal that would increase rent payments for more than two million...
