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MORNING MESSAGE Jeff Bryant How Corporations Force Their Way Into America’s Public Schools In the expanding effort to privatize the nation’s public education system, an ominous, less-understood strain of the movement is the corporate influence in Career and...
How Corporations Force Their Way Into America’s Public Schools
Photo credit: Virginia Department of Education / flickr / cc In the expanding effort to privatize the nation’s public education system, an ominous, less-understood strain of the movement is the corporate influence in Career and Technical Education (CTE) that is...
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MORNING MESSAGE Steven Rosenfeld Can Nevada Avoid A Vote-Count Meltdown? As Nevada prepares for 2020 Democratic Party presidential caucuses after four days of early voting, the big question is will there be breakdowns in the reporting and counting of votes that echo...
Can Nevada Avoid A Vote-Count Meltdown?
As Nevada prepares for 2020 Democratic Party presidential caucuses after four days of early voting, the big question is will there be breakdowns in the reporting and counting of votes that echo Iowa’s chaotic 2020 caucus earlier this month. That question is not...
You Are Free To Vote, Even Behind Bars
I visited Birmingham County Jail this week to deliver a simple message: you are free to vote, even if you don’t know it. And now is the time for you to claim and exercise this right. I was joined by allies from the League of Women Voters, the NAACP, prominent...
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MORNING MESSAGE Tom Conway Facing Retirement With Fear Glen Heck spent 28 years sweating in a Campti, La., paper mill that he likes to say was “hotter than nine kinds of hell.” The Democratic-controlled House passed—with bipartisan support — a commonsense plan to save...
Facing Retirement With Fear
Glen Heck spent 28 years sweating in a Campti, La., paper mill that he likes to say was “hotter than nine kinds of hell.” But now, Heck’s sacrifice may have been for nothing because his multiemployer pension plan is one of about 150 nationwide set to go broke. If that...
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MORNING MESSAGE Steven Rosenfeld NH Students Fight Voter Suppression With Turnout By 3:30 p.m. on Election Day 2020, as several town officials stood behind tables in the gym where a trickle of people fed hand-marked paper ballots into an Accu-Vote scanner, a few...
NH Students Fight Voter Suppression With Turnout
In 2016, New Hampshire Gov. Maggie Hassan, a Democrat, was elected to the U.S. Senate by a 1,017-vote margin. Even though both parties spent millions on the campaign, the key to Hassan’s victory was thousands of college and university students who registered to vote...
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MORNING MESSAGE Adiel Pollydore Young Voters Make All The Difference For Bernie It took every one of us to bring home Senator Bernie Sanders’ victory in the New Hampshire Primary last night. A lot of us, like me, are young people who have a vision for a sustainable...
