by Isaiah J. Poole | Feb 17, 2010 | Uncategorized
Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what progressives need to affect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs, health care, green energy, financial reform, affordable education and retirement security. Bill Scher is ill today. On the...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Feb 16, 2010 | Blog
Getting health care reform done in 2009 might not have saved the life of Melanie Shouse, who died of breast cancer last month at the age of 41. But what we do know is that the lives of thousands of other women like her are at risk because, one year after Congress and...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Feb 11, 2010 | Blog
House Minority Whip Eric Cantor today reiterated the claim that "uncertainty" created by the work Democratic congressional leaders are doing to clean up the mess left by conservative economic policies is responsible for the anemic state of the economic recovery and...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Feb 9, 2010 | Blog, Economy
On Friday, when the Bureau of Labor Statistics released its report that another 20,000 Americans had lost their jobs in January, the right-wing spin machine immediately unleashed one of their tried-and-true talking points: that the reason the economy is not creating...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Feb 8, 2010 | Blog
I don't like to use the term "whore" lightly. But what else, in our current economic environment, would you call this? Republicans are rushing to capitalize on what they call Wall Street’s “buyer’s remorse” with the Democrats. And industry executives and lobbyists are...
