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How the New Flexible Economy is Making Workers’ Lives Hell
America’s “flexible labor market” is the envy of business leaders and policy makers the world over. There’s only one problem. The new flexibility doesn’t allow working people to live their lives.
How California Flipped The Education-Reform Script
At least one state seems to have missed the war on public schools: California. Could it be that California has found an alternative to the “reform” path that has created so much discontent?
Fast Tracking Democracy to Hell
With elected officials excluded from TPP talks, details of the deal deliberately shrouded in secrecy and free traders demanding lawmakers disregard the deal’s effects on constituents by Fast Tracking it, this process condemns democracy.
Progressive Breakfast
Progressives Rip Fast-Track (But Where's The Tea Party?) Populism2015 rally against fast-track puts pressure on Democrats. Washington Examiner: 'Thank you for lying to us,' said Tefere Gebre, executive vice president of the AFL-CIO labor federation, during a noon...
Populism2015's Upshot – Hillary Clinton Has Her Challenger: It Is Us
With groups allied around the Populism2015 platform "for people and the planet," we have a North Star for organizing and building coalitions, and a yardstick for measuring any candidate running for office.
1,000 Protestors At Big D.C. Anti-Fast Track/TPP Demonstration
There was a big rally in Washington on Monday to denounce the Trade Promotion Authority and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal that "fast track" will push through Congress.
Is A Worthy Revision Of NCLB Really Possible?
Senators are now advancing a bipartisan revision to the law known as No Child Left Behind. Education policy experts who often don’t agree find something positive in the bill.
Progressives Ratify The Populism2015 Platform
Hundreds of activists at the Populism2015 conference gave a resounding "aye" when asked to ratify a 12-point platform that puts people and the planet first: "Everybody in, nobody out."
Progressive Breakfast
Hillary Competes With Sanders, O'Malley For The Left Hillary aims to win over progressives. AP: "Clinton's supporters say her recent comments, particularly on inequality, do not reflect a shift in position [But] Clinton is not in the clear with liberals yet ... Her...
Social Security Trust – or, Never Lend Money to a Conservative
“The trust fund isn't real.” This claim is evergreen on the right – and it's wrong, as wrong as when Alf Landon deployed many of the same arguments in his 1936 race against FDR.
