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Walmart Workers Stage K Street Protest, And Walmart Needs To Listen
Walmart is reaping the fruits of its leadership in the low-wage economy. It would do better if it did right by its workers, some of whom went to its family foundation office in D.C. to demand full-time work and a $15 wage.
America’s Grand Fortunes Go Overboard
Forbes doesn’t bother asking how our absurdly rich went about making their fortunes. But we should. Our top 400, after all, haven’t just made monstrously large fortunes. They’ve made a monstrously large mess.
Viewpoint From Honduras
At the deportation center in San Pedro Sula, planes land with over 100 Hondurans a day, returned from our border prisons to their native land. They tell heartbreaking tales of failed attempts to join their families or find work.
Why Change The Way We Talk About Education
Education policy ideas that once seemed so resolute are now shaken by strong voices of opposition. There’s a new book to help us in the serious work of rethinking the nation’s education agenda – by changing the way we talk about education
New Jersey vs. China: Guess Which One Gets Infrastructure Right
New Jersey's Gov. Chris Christie rejected federal funding for rail tunnels connecting his state to New York, and residents are feeling the consequences. Chinese leaders are making a different set of choices.
Progressive Breakfast
Big Money Seeks To Save Republicans Outside money swoops in to shore up Republicans. NYT: "Republican candidates for the Senate have overcome the sizable fund-raising edge held by their Democratic opponents for most of the 2014 election cycle ... The question is...
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio: A Powerful Populist Voice
De Blasio's acceptance speech at CAF's Awards Gala Tuesday was a clarion call for a bold populist politics, one that would challenge the limits of conventional wisdom.
Investment In Infrastructure Would Cure Today's Slow Growth Problem
One factor in this week's stock market decline: The growing consensus that austerity is killing economies around the world. So, around the world leaders are calling for increased spending on infrastructure.
Celebrating The Work Of Progressive Champions
On Tuesday night, progressive leaders and activists celebrated champions whose work shows that progressive leadership and governance improve the lives of hard-working Americans.
Midterm Ad Watch: Where Dems Are On Offense
Republicans in swing House districts are having difficulty, because of the shutdown, support for millionaire tax breaks and alleged scandals. Here's where Democrats are on the offense, complicating GOP hopes to fortify its House majority.
