by Derek Pugh | Sep 20, 2013 | Blog
The House GOP believes in welfare – just not the kind that goes to help the poor, sick, students, elderly or working class. Thursday’s vote to cut food stamps embodies what House conservatives are all about: giving billions away in corporate welfare to the richest...
by Derek Pugh | Sep 11, 2013 | Economy, Student Debt Relief
Don’t be fooled by the U.S. News & World Report’s annual college rankings. The Internet is already abuzz over which college trampled the other for the race to the top of the list, released this morning. With the usual suspects taking the lead, like Harvard and...
by Derek Pugh | Jul 8, 2013 | Financial Reform
Though the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau opened shop almost three years ago, it has yet to be fully functional because of the financial industry lobby and its allies in Congress. Today, Sen. Elizabeth Warren along with Americans for Financial Reform held a...
by Derek Pugh | Jun 26, 2013 | Uncategorized
The Democracy Corps recent Congressional Battleground survey provides surprising insights into the upcoming midterm election. In the most contested battleground districts, Democrats can defy the conventional wisdom that they are doomed to lose seats in an off-year...
by Derek Pugh | Jun 20, 2013 | Uncategorized
Every day, Americans take more than 260 million trips over structurally deficient bridges to visit friends and family, pick up their children from school, and go to work, according to a new report by Transportation for America. And that aspect of America’s crumbling...
