by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 17, 2011 | Blog
When Martin Luther King Jr. gave the sermon at the National Cathedral in Washington on March 31, 1968 to highlight the Poor People's Campaign he was organizing for later that spring, unemployment was hovering just under 7 percent—for African Americans. The nationwide...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 9, 2011 | Blog
The new Republican chairman of the House Financial Services Committee is proving that the financial services industry invested well when it spent more than $200 million on the 2010 elections, including more than $106 million on Republican candidates. Rep. Spencer...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 3, 2011 | Blog
Conservatives have a legislative agenda for 2011 that will hurt your ability to get or keep a job, your neighborhood's ability to recover from the recession and this country's ability to regain its footing in the global economy. To keep conservatives from enacting...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 3, 2011 | Blog
We have to stop letting conservatives get away with the line that state and local governments, as well as corporations, are in trouble with their employee retirement plans because greedy employee unions extracted promises from their employers that they could not keep....
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 3, 2011 | Blog
President Obama spent much of Wednesday huddled with a group of business executives, an effort The New York Times said afterward "went a long way to reset the tone of the relationship between Mr. Obama and corporate America" in the eyes of the corporate chieftains who...
