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Nations Report Card Distracts From Real Concerns For Public Schools
Imagine you’re a parent of a seven-year-old who has just come home from school with her end-of-year report card. And the report card provides marks for only two subjects, and for children who are in grade-levels different from hers. Furthermore, there's nothing on the...
Castrated Servants Of Royalty
The right leaning, safety net slashing Simpson-Bowles consensus of two is being revised. Rightwards: “As I have thought about it…under the Affordable Health Care Act we provide subsidies for people who have really chronic illnesses and people who have limited incomes...
Protecting The Right To Vote
Last month, Dorothy Cooper, a 96-year-old African-American woman from Chattanooga, Tennessee, went to the ballot box to vote. Dorothy was born before women had the right to vote and when Jim Crow laws kept most African-Americans disenfranchised. Despite this, Dorothy...
What Would Adam Smith Say
Elizabeth Warren really hit a nerve among conservatives with her winning message about the the social contract and America's economy. What I didn't know is that she did it with an assist from the right's favorite philosopher on economic policy. Just to review, here's...
Policing the 99 Percent Pt 1
Much has already been written and said about violence police used against unarmed OWS protesters in New York, Chicago, Boston, and now Oakland. From using pepper spray against peaceful protesters to lobbing flash bombs at unarmed protesters rushing to help an injured...
Lessons in Positive Policing From Wisconsins Original Occupation
After two tours of duty in Iraq, 24-year-old Wisconsin native Scott Olsen managed to escape unscathed and with seven medals for valor. But Olsen was critically injured in an Occupy Oakland march last week by a police projectile. See video here. According to...
Progressive Breakfast - 11/2/2011
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: Policing The 99%...
Progressive Breakfast
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: Policing The 99%...
Consumers Win Debit Card Victory But War Against Reform Continues
Sometimes, even an institution that is "too big to fail" is not too big to be influenced by energized citizens on a quest for basic fairness. With a national "move your money" day coming up on November 5 and facing the prospect of losing tens of thousands of...
Robert Borosage on Tavis Smiley Conservative Reverse Robin Hood Tax Plans
Institute for America's Future co-director Robert Borosage appeared on the Tavis Smiley Show on October 31 to discuss the tax and economic policies advanced by Republican presidential candidates and their impact on middle- and low-income people. He calls the flat-tax...
