by Isaiah J. Poole | Dec 19, 2017 | Blog
[fve]https://youtu.be/uKkI-xAWFhE[/fve]The Economic Policy Institute produced this video to celebrate the career of outgoing President Lawrence Mishel. It was presented at a party in his honor December 13 at the Service Employees International Union offices. Lawrence...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Dec 13, 2017 | Blog
Democrat Doug Jones won his bid for a U.S. Senate seat in Alabama Tuesday night against Republican Roy Moore in one of the most closely watched elections of the year. But the real winners of this election are the thousands of voters who came together into a movement...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Dec 7, 2017 | Blog
The Department of Housing and Urban Development, led by former brain surgeon and not-qualified-to-run-a-federal-agency Ben Carson, has found itself making an uncomfortable admission: Under Donald Trump, the nation's homelessness problem is getting worse. HUD put a...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Dec 4, 2017 | Blog
“I’d like to think of myself as ordinary,” says Ross Grooters as he describes his life in Pleasant Hill, Iowa, an eastern suburb of Des Moines. But then he corrects himself. “Most people’s passions or enjoyment are not going out and doing activist things, so that’s...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Nov 8, 2017 | Blog
Trumpism was trounced Tuesday night in Virginia, New Jersey and Maine. The rejection of President Trump's agenda that grabbed the most headlines was the surprisingly sound defeat of longtime Republican operative Ed Gillespie in the Virginia governor's race by the...