by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 27, 2012 | Blog
LISTEN The Nation's Greg Kaufmann discusses "This Week in Poverty" and the need to make the plight of poor people more visible. Did you catch the reference in President Obama's State of the Union address to "poverty"? You can be forgiven if you didn't. Greg Kaufmann...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 25, 2012 | Blog
We were hoping to get from President Obama's State of the Union address Tuesday night a bold, galvanizing vision of how the economy could be made to work once again for the 99 percent, the majority of Americans who are being left behind as the nation's wealth flows...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 18, 2012 | Blog
Because our fight for a people-powered democracy and an economy that works for all Americans depends on a free and open Internet, OurFuture.org today is standing in solidarity with the many websites that are protesting two bills pending in Congress that are direct and...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 17, 2012 | Blog
In the fight over what little soul is left of the Republican Party, Mitt Romney has shown his willingness to double down on racial injustice. Romney did so in his support for the expansion of laws that deny people convicted of felonies the right to vote after they...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 13, 2012 | Blog
"We could use a massive, dramatic confrontation on behalf of the more than 27 million who are unemployed or underemployed today," I wrote one year ago. "The spirit of Martin Luther King Jr. would certainly be in its midst." Little did I know when I wrote those words...
