by Isaiah J. Poole | May 19, 2016 | Election 2016, Progressive Vision
[fve]https://youtu.be/q2WUaVGTZu8[/fve] The one major achievement that has eluded Bernie Sanders during his presidential campaign was winning the majority of the African-American vote in a primary. In fact, Sanders has never registered more than a third of the...
by Isaiah J. Poole | May 17, 2016 | Blog, Economy, Jobs and Growth
[fve]https://youtu.be/6QHVgfIGync[/fve] Donna Mossman remembers the day, back in the 1970s living with her parents in an apartment in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y., that water cascaded through the living room wall. Looking back, that was a...
by Isaiah J. Poole | May 13, 2016 | Jobs and Growth
An alarm bell went off this week about the state of the nation's infrastructure and what government inaction is costing every American household – but the news media seems to have hit the mute button on the alarm in the rush of wall-to-wall Donald Trump coverage. But...
by Isaiah J. Poole | May 11, 2016 | Conservatism, Economy
Puerto Rico is in dire straits, and its citizens – no, make that "our fellow citizens" – need immediate relief from a crushing debt that is already causing severe hardship to people who can least bare it. Yet, Republican leaders in the House of Representatives were...
by Isaiah J. Poole | May 10, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016, Health, Tax Reform
It's "Neoliberals Gang Up on Bernie Sanders Week" along the corridor of Washington establishment think-tanks that include the Brookings Institution, the Urban Institute and a Brookings offspring, the Tax Policy Center. Out of this corridor came not one, but two...
