by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 1, 2012 | Blog
For the progressive movement, it's put up or shut up time in Wisconsin. We said that we despise the agenda of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker. We cheered the thousands of people who occupied the state capitol in 2011 to protest Walker's ramming legislation crippling...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 1, 2012 | Blog, Economy
Today's unemployment report, reflecting an anemic increase of only 69,000 new jobs in May and an unemployment rate up to 8.2 percent, is the best evidence yet that conservative obstruction measures that would put Americans back to work is crippling the economy. That...
by Isaiah J. Poole | May 31, 2012 | Blog
Ruby Brown of Minneapolis says that for the past four years, she has been "struggling to keep Bank of America from taking my home," trying to convince the bank to reset the principal on her mortgage to its current market value. But the bank has refused, and she fears...
by Isaiah J. Poole | May 29, 2012 | Blog
By the time you read this, we should be at the 25th hour of what is, even though it shouldn't be, one of those 24-hour stories, namely Chris Hayes' comment about our country's casual use of the word "hero" for all of our military personnel and the knee-jerk right-wing...
by Isaiah J. Poole | May 25, 2012 | Blog
The gauntlet has been thrown down in the tax fairness fight. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor earlier today announced that House Republicans will schedule a vote before the August recess on making the Bush tax cuts permanent for everyone, including the rich and...
