by Isaiah J. Poole | May 4, 2010 | Blog, Economy
The BlueGreen Alliance is a coalition of union and environmental organizations "Green is gold," said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as she stressed the importance of the coalition in building on the job-creation work started by the Recovery Act last year. "Know your power...
by Isaiah J. Poole | May 3, 2010 | Blog
In June 2008, former Maryland Gov. Robert Ehrlich Jr.—a conservative who is now seeking the Republican nomination to get his old job back—was at an education conference in which he touted charter schools, private institutions that operate in competition to public...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Apr 23, 2010 | Blog
Most discussions about addressing the country's budget deficit essentially leave out a $1.1 trillion slice of the federal government. That's the size of the federal government's "tax expenditures" in fiscal year 2009, based on calculations in a new Citizens for Tax...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Apr 20, 2010 | Blog
Next week, fiscal conservatives in both parties will be dominating the airwaves even more than they have been with their calls for a style of "fiscal discipline" that is designed to impose pain on those who are least capable of bearing it—the elderly, the poor, the...