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Where Are the Populist Democrats?
It’s futile to hope that the GOP’s gaggle of corporate-hugging, right-wing presidential candidates will seriously address the issue of rising inequality in our land. How about the Democrats?
An Alternative To Failed Education 'Reform,' If We Want One
California has started to take education policy in a different direction, from fiscal austerity and rigid accountability to more financial support and more power and trust to local authorities.
Atlanta's School Teachers Aren't Alone In Their Attempts To Cheat
In today’s education landscape, so dominated by the tyranny of testing, falsifying data is not the only way to ensure high scores. You can falsify education practice itself.
Progressive Breakfast
Fast Track Heads To Senate Floor Senate Finance Committee passes fast track bill. The Hill: "The panel approved, on an 20-6 vote, a long-awaited trade promotion authority (TPA) measure with the support of seven Democrats ... Sens. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) and Debbie...
Government Sweatshops: A Time for the President to Act
The federal government is the leading generator of low-wage jobs in America. Now those workers are calling on the president to step up and use his pen to lift workers up, not drive them down.
Government Contract Workers Strike For Better Pay
Sen. Bernie Sanders and Progressive Caucus members stand with low-wage government contract workers, saying that taxpayer-paid contractors should pay workers a living wage.
Study: "Right-To-Work" Lowers Wages
A new reports confirms that "right-to-work" laws are really about employers' to "right" make their employees work for lower wages, and not about protecting workers rights.
Will Marriage Equality Opponents Take Us Back To The "Green Book" Era?
As the Supreme Court takes up marriage equality again, conservatives are preparing for a likely landmark ruling by trying to bring back a phrase that once haunted black families: "We don't serve your kind here."
Here Is Proof That Conservatives Actually Hate Markets
Given a choice between the market law of supply and demand and their hatred of our government, conservatives choose hatred of government over free markets every time.
Progressive Breakfast
Obama v. Warren Over TPP Obama criticizes Warren on TPP during MSNBC interview. Time quotes: "We’re allies on a whole host of issues. But she’s wrong on this ... [She] is out there saying things like this about the trade agreement: ‘It’s going to help the rich get...
