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The Divestment Dividend
Students, professors, and alumni are increasingly telling their schools to put their money where their mission is by shunning oil, gas, and coal assets. And there’s no more symbolic time of year to make that kind of statement.
Progressive Breakfast
Upcoming Events Next Week Tackle Inequality Sen. Elizabeth Warren's and Rep. Elijah Cummings' Middle Class Prosperity Project visits Howard University Monday, 2:30 PM: "The forum will focus on the effect of rising college costs on the middle class particularly the...
A 'Path To Yes' On Trade, But Paul Ryan Blocks It
Sander Levin's "right track" bill was a path to doing at least some good for labor and others through passage of authorizing legislation for the Trans-Pacific Partnership. But it was quickly shut down.
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.
