by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 17, 2016 | Election 2016, Progressive Vision
If you actually read Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders speech to his supporters Thursday – rather than the news coverage of it – you will immediately grasp the importance of this weekend's gathering in Chicago of about 3,000 progressive leaders and...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 14, 2016 | Jobs and Growth
When the Department of Labor released new rules that would require millions of lower-wage workers to be paid overtime for working more than 40 hours a week, a number of prominent nonprofit organizations – including some allies on the left – protested. That split gave...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 13, 2016 | Election 2016, Progressive Vision
Let's hope that a story published by Politico on Monday about the kind of campaigns Democrats plan to run to retake the Senate proves inaccurate. "Democrats' surprising strategy to win the Senate: Be boring," is the headline for the story, which describes the overall...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 10, 2016 | Conservatism, Economy
[fve]https://youtu.be/DO1FR4a0H-o[/fve] When House Speaker Paul Ryan unveiled his repackaged conservative ideas this week about reducing and refocusing government anti=poverty programs, there was one element missing: What about low-income people in Ryan's own...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 9, 2016 | Election 2016, Jobs and Growth
[fve]https://youtu.be/Y93WutGCyf4[/fve]Joseph Geevarghese, executive director of Good Jobs Nation, discusses the effort to get a $15 minimum wage plank written into the Democratic Party platform. As members of the Democratic Party platform committee entered the...
