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Dems Move Women Into Leadership Roles Democratic women are replacing men in leadership positions. Axios: "Democrats are moving women into leadership roles in key party organizations, including the campaign arms for national and state races — and even in the moderate...
What Teacher Walkouts Changed in Our Politics
Even before the votes from the recent midterm elections were completely counted – a process that took nearly two weeks in many races – numerous prominent news outlets were quick to report on the supposed failure of the "education wave," those school teachers and...
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Trump Backs Away From Shutdown Trump assents to shutdown delay. Politico: "President Donald Trump and congressional leaders are getting ready to punt on a major shutdown fight over Trump's border wall for at least a week. The president said he would back a two-week...
Leveling Up And Down
Massive, disruptive change is happening in the world economy. Up to half of all current workers, both white and blue collar, could be driven into unemployment by technology. Automation, artificial intelligence, and machine learning are fueling a new industrial...
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GOP Pushes Children Out Of Health Coverage Number of U.S. Children Without Health Insurance Grew in 2017 for the 1st Time in Almost a Decade. Fortune: "The economy is strong, unemployment is down, and yet the number of uninsured children in the U.S. is up. According...
Workers Petition Congress: Protect Our Pensions
The total number of workers at risk is 1.2 million. In my union, the United Steelworkers (USW), 100,000 are threatened. Daryl A. Bugbee of Olivet, Mich., is one of them. He wrote Congress’ Joint Select Committee on Multiemployer Pensions on Aug. 8: “I am the father of...
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Senate Rebukes Trump On War In Yemen Senators, furious over Khashoggi killing, spurn president on war in Yemen. NYT: "Furious over being denied a C.I.A. briefing on the killing of a Saudi journalist, senators from both parties spurned the Trump administration on...
Heartland Holds the Key to Winning in 2020
While the country was captivated on election night by insurgent campaigns led by Southerners like Andrew Gillum, Stacey Abrams, and Beto O’Rourke, people in the America’s Heartland and the Rustbelt were preparing a message of their own. Two years after they sent...
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Hyde-Smith Wins Mississippi Senate Runoff Republican wins Mississippi's US Senate runoff. The Guardian: "The Republican US senator Cindy Hyde-Smith has won her race for re-election in Mississippi, after a tense runoff during which she attracted national attention for...
How Betsy DeVos Does the Koch Brothers' Bidding
While the serial outrages of the Trump administration continue to make headlines, the more mundane activities of his cabinet officials and their underlings often fly under the radar. Take U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, for instance, whose nomination drew a...
