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Low-Wage Federal Contractors To Strike Wednesday
Through privatization and contracting the U.S. Government has become the country's biggest low-wage job creator, funding over 2 million poverty jobs.
'Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness' Demands $15 an Hour
Signing the 1933 National Industrial Recovery Act into law, FDR rightly said “no business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages has any right to continue in this country.” Let's make it so.
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."
