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Wait, It Gets Worse: Eli Broad's School Corruption Legacy
Photo credit: arcticpenguin / flickr / cc Billionaire charter-school boosters like Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and Eli Broad and have turned school leadership into a cartel system focused on advancing careers and enriching businesses. One can see, in the track...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Tim Wilkins On The Freedom Side At The Nevada People’s Presidential Forum The Nevada People’s Presidential Forum was filled with insights, but it was also a celebration – it ended with a dance party, as PLAN Action organizer Champagne Clark led the...
On The Freedom Side At The Nevada People’s Presidential Forum
The Nevada People’s Presidential Forum was filled with insightful moments, but it was also a celebration - it ended with a dance party, as PLAN Action organizer Champagne Clark led the crowd gathered at the East Las Vegas Community Center in an enthusiastic call and...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE George Goehl The People's Forum Is Letting Voters' Voices Be Heard, Not Just Candidates Many low-income and working-class people – black, Latinx, Native, Asian, as well as many white folks – feel unseen in our politics. We often bemoan the low voting...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Ryan Greenwood How You Can Make 2020 The Year The People Win At People’s Action, we believe in the power of extraordinary everyday people. We also believe this power belongs in government – including in the highest office of the land. That’s why our...
How You Can Make 2020 The Year The People Win
At People’s Action, we believe in the power of extraordinary everyday people. We also believe this power belongs in government - including in the highest office of the land. That’s why our movement politics program elevates the voices of the multi-racial working...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Jeff Bryant How Charter-School Billionaires Corrupt School Leadership It’s rare when goings-on in Kansas City, Missouri schools make national headlines, but in 2011 the New York Times reported on the sudden departure of the district’s superintendent...
How Charter-School Billionaires Corrupt School Leadership
Westport High School, one of 26 Kansas City schools closed by John Covington It’s rare when goings-on in Kansas City, Missouri schools make national headlines, but in 2011 the New York Times reported on the sudden departure of the district’s superintendent John...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Sam Pizzigati America’s Rich Just Scored A Triple Jackpot In 2008 America’s 400 richest households paid taxes at a lower rate than any other income cohort in the nation - the first time that’s happened since the modern federal income tax went into...
America's Rich Just Scored A Triple Jackpot
America’s awesomely affluent don’t have to place any bets to pull in the windfalls. They’re essentially hitting jackpots on a daily basis, as a “trifecta” of timely just-released research reminds us.
