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What LA Teachers Tell Us About Rising Inequality
Back during the 1960s and 1970s, in cities, suburbs, and small towns across the United States, teacher strikes made headlines on a fairly regular basis. Teachers in those years had a variety of reasons for walking out. They struck for the right to bargain. They struck...
Progressive Breakfast
Shutdown Threatens Food Safety Health risks rise as shutdown hits second month. Forbes: "The government shutdown is threatening the health of millions of Americans, increasing the risk for harm as the partial closure of key federal agencies enters its second month,...
The Indignity of Work Without Pay
In the midst of the longest government shutdown in history, U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown this week launched a “Dignity of Work” listening tour. The Democratic senator who just won reelection by nearly seven points in the red state of Ohio explained the concept to...
Progressive Breakfast
Thousands More Migrant Children Separated From Families Family separation may have hit thousands more migrant children than reported. NYT: "The Trump administration most likely separated thousands more children from their parents at the Southern border than was...
Organizing To Win Governing Power
As we enter a perilous period in American history, with Donald Trump’s bottomless insecurity fueling white supremacy and fascism on the one hand and environmental Armageddon on the other, there is an opening of historic proportions for mass revolutionary organizing....
Progressive Breakfast
Government Shutdown Damages Economy Shutdown will be worse for economy than first thought, White House says. NPR: "The partial government shutdown is inflicting far greater damage on the U.S. economy than the Trump administration previously estimated, the White House...
U.S. Tax Policy Can Turn on a Dime. Has Ocasio-Cortez Just Turned It?
Who gets taxed in the United States — and by how much — can change both drastically and fast. Back in early 1916, for instance, America’s richest faced income tax rates that posed, at worst, no more than a minor inconvenience. On income over $500,000, about $11.5...
Progressive Breakfast
Court Blocks Census Citizenship Probe Courts thwart Trump’s bid to enact hard-line immigration agenda as Congress dithers. WaPo: "President Trump’s efforts to remake the immigration system through executive power have been repeatedly thwarted by the federal courts,...
Trump Violates Law by Taking Putin Notes
The Washington Post has reported that Trump “has gone to extraordinary lengths to conceal details of his conversations with Russian President Vladimir Putin, including on at least one occasion taking possession of the notes of his own interpreter, and ordering...
Progressive Breakfast
IA Rep. Steve King Punished For Racism IA Rep. Steve King Punished For Racism. NYT: "House Republican leaders removed Representative Steve King of Iowa from the Judiciary and Agriculture Committees on Monday night as party officials scrambled to appear tough on racism...
