by Isaiah J. Poole | May 19, 2011 | Blog
In a column posted at the New Republic, Ruy Teixeira points out that the current inside-the-Beltway focus on deficit reduction to the exclusion of meaningful steps to put Americans back to work makes no more sense politically than it does economically. "The simplest...
by Isaiah J. Poole | May 19, 2011 | Blog
The kind of fights that were waged in the 1960s to ensure that African Americans had equal access to the right to vote have to be fought again today for millions of voters across the country. INTERVIEW Tova Wang of Demos disusses the impact of conservative-led voter...
by Isaiah J. Poole | May 6, 2011 | Blog
While you're thinking of your mother on Mother's Day, think about the health care options your mother should have once she is 65. One of the greatest gifts we can leave for our parents is the defeat of the Medicare privatization plan that conservatives want to foist...
by Isaiah J. Poole | May 6, 2011 | Blog, Economy
It is amazing, given that we've been fighting a three-alarm unemployment fire with water buckets the past few months, that there is any positive news at all in the unemployment front. But there was a surprising net increase in 244,000 new jobs in April—a sliver of...
by Isaiah J. Poole | May 4, 2011 | Blog
Just two days after Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., claimed that the "Gang of Six" that he's a member of was making "enormous progress" toward coming up with a bipartisan deficit-reduction plan, a series of news reports indicated that the process is...
