by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 30, 2016 | Blog, Economy, Jobs and Growth
"You never let a serious crisis go to waste," Rahm Emanuel infamously said when he was President Obama's White House chief of staff. So it is with the legislation that President Obama signs into law Thursday that offers Puerto Rico a process for managing its crushing...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 29, 2016 | Education
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has gotten some well-deserved rebukes for the limited college-debt relief plan she unveiled Tuesday in Denver for graduates who start new businesses. "If Clinton wants to give away money to people who will eventually...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 28, 2016 | Jobs and Growth
One of the unheralded victories in the Democratic Party platform victories puts the party officially on the side of workers in a big, concrete way. The platform draft that is now on its way to the full platform committee, which votes on it at a meeting in Orlando,...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 27, 2016 | Jobs and Growth
While national pizza chains like Domino's and Papa John's have been targeted by Fight for 15 protests around the country because of their low wages and allegations of wage theft, a Washington, D.C.-based pizza entrepreneur has made his chain a champion of the...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 19, 2016 | Progressive Vision
After an intense weekend of speeches and discussion about the future of the progressive “political revolution” sparked by the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign, the People’s Summit ended Sunday with a charge to continue to keep “the Bern” blazing through a myriad...
