by Isaiah J. Poole | Oct 4, 2011 | Blog
If there was one message that united the various speeches that launched the Take Back the American Dream conference in Washington, it was perhaps summed up by former Labor Secretary Robert Reich, who gave a post-lunch talk that was as potent as a can of Red Bull....
by Isaiah J. Poole | Oct 1, 2011 | Blog
House conservatives today threw another grenade today in their war on workers and the institutions designed to protect worker rights. They also continued to show their willingness to politically interfere in an administrative law process to impose their ideology and...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Sep 28, 2011 | Blog, Minimum Wage
No one knows why a group of about 10 teenagers surrounded Trell Thomas at a bus stop in downtown Washington earlier this month and beat him so badly that his jaw was broken, causing permanent damage. But Trell has given a lot of thought about how to respond to the...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Sep 23, 2011 | Blog
Progressive activists are accustomed to raising the bull-droppings deflection shield whenever a conservative utters a sentence containing the words "job creators." We know what's coming—and there's a lot of it. Just in the 24-hour period between Thursday afternoon and...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Sep 19, 2011 | Blog
President Obama's address today on taxes and deficit reduction draws the broad contours of the economic reform argument exactly as they should be drawn, between a plan that calls for "shared sacrifice" to be actually shared by all rather than imposed on the...
