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Economic Inequality Threatens Human Progress.
Economic inequality is a major threat to human progress. Eighty-five people control the same amount of wealth as half the population of the world. This gives a few people too much power.
Let Teachers Lead The Common Core
Perhaps the most tumultuous education issue for the year ahead is the fate of Common Core standards. Is it beyond the capacity of Common Core advocates to trust teachers to do what’s right for children?
Go To Raleigh And 'Send A Signal' To Tea-Party Extremists
The Rev. William Barber II explains why he is calling people around the country to join a Feb. 8 "moral march" on Raleigh, N.C.: "In order to change America, you have to change the South."
Progressive Breakfast
America Gets More Unequal This Month States start cutting jobless aid. NYT: "Starting on Jan. 1, the maximum period of unemployment payments dropped to 26 weeks in most states, down from as much as 73 weeks ... the country’s safety net for jobless workers has...
A Congress Of the Wealthy, By the Wealthy, and For the Wealthy
The average member of Congress is worth more than $1 million. What does it mean for a representative democracy when most of its representatives are insulated from the real-world economic experiences of its citizens?
What Would A Full-Fledged Manufacturing Policy Look Like?
Our international competitors have national manufacturing strategies. They see themselves as countries, and they compete with us as if we were a country. But we do not respond as a country, so they win.
Defining a Daring New Standard for Fair Pay
A new Toronto-based campaign is aiming to change the global conversation on CEOs, workers and labor's real value, certifying enterprises that pay their top execs no more than eight times their lowest-paid workers.
America’s Entitlement Society – Populated by Corporate Executives
Better than distributing bottled water after a chemical spill, West Virginia, would be regulating corporations to prevent them from poisoning water in the first place.
Progressive Breakfast
SOTU Highlights Dem Divisions "Obama Under Pressure From Divided Democrats on Economic Message in State of the Union" reports National Journal: "The party's centrist wing, which generally backs entitlement reforms and free-trade agreements that appeal to the more...
The New Populism
A "new populism" is stirring, as the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party begins to challenge Wall Street's domination of our politics. But rebuilding the middle class will require a fierce, independent popular mobilization.
