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WV Teachers Demand Affordable Health Care WV public schools closed despite deal that was to end strike. CNN: "All West Virginia public schools will remain closed Thursday, which was the day teachers were to return to work after what is turning into a week-long strike...
Yes, You Can Talk To Strangers
Talking with strangers is never easy. But getting to know your neighbors helps achieve lasting change in this country. That's why ONE Northside is getting out, knocking on doors, and breaking down barriers in Chicago.
Progressive Breakfast
WV Teachers End Strike With Pay Deal West Virginia Teachers’ Strike Ends With a Promise to Raise Pay. NYT: "A teachers’ strike that ground public schools to a halt across West Virginia is set to end on Thursday, a week after it began, Gov. James C. Justice and...
Gun Control Legislation Is Constitutional
It’s time to stop letting the NRA scare the burgeoning gun safety movement led by courageous student survivors into accepting small-bore reforms out of a mistaken belief that stronger gun safety laws would be unconstitutional.
Janus: Billionaires Take on Public Employees and their Unions
If the Gorsuch Supreme Court prevails in Janus, they will succeed in weakening unions, lowering wages and benefits for public employees, while exacerbating the savage inequality that already subverts our democracy.
Progressive Breakfast
WV Teachers In Statewide Strike West Virginia teachers continue strike for fourth day. WaPo: "A teacher strike in West Virginia stretched on Monday, with classes canceled across the state for a third day and demonstrators continuing to flock to the capital city. The...
Picture the United States Without Student Debt
A new report concludes that cancelling all student debt would create more than a million jobs. To those who say we can’t afford to cancel this debt, the report poses a new and different question: Can we afford not to?
How Democrats Can Offer Real Solutions to America’s Problems
Resistance alone is not enough. That's why 70 progressive leaders have outlined a new economic agenda, and pledged to work towards a movement that can fix our rigged economy.
Progressive Breakfast
SCOTUS Opens Case To Curb Unions Case may enable U.S. Supreme Court to curb union power. Reuters: "The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday will consider for the second time in two years whether to choke off a critical funding stream for public-employee unions, potentially...
The Big Pharma Family that Brought Us the Opioid Crisis
Who will bring to justice those who have profited the most royally from addiction? These drug pushers have caused hundreds of thousands of deaths, enough fatalities to actually decrease U.S. life expectancy for the past two years running.
