by Isaiah J. Poole | Apr 23, 2009 | Blog
The Obama administration this week got a warning shot across its bow against structuring a bank resuce plan that would amount to yet another taxpayer subsidy of the wealthy. It's a shot that progressives who have the administration's ear on economic policy need to...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Apr 17, 2009 | Blog
Journalist and author William Greider is urging the labor movement and other progressives to get tough with the Democratic Party, even if that means putting the party's majority control in the House and Senate at risk. Greider, who was at the AFL-CIO headquarters in...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Apr 6, 2009 | Blog
The debate over how well President Obama did at the G-20 summit last week—and certainly the debate over who touched who first in the encounter between First Lady Michelle Obama and Britain's Queen Elizabeth—doesn't address the most important question of all: What did...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Apr 3, 2009 | Blog
As bad as today's unemployment news is for the nation, for the African-American community it's much worse. African Americans as a group continue to bear a disproportionate share of the damage done to the economy by misguided conservative policies. It consequently...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Apr 1, 2009 | Blog
Unlike the 19-page propaganda document House Republicans lamely called their alternative budget last week, the Congressional Progressive Caucus has released a real budget with real numbers. Plus, it gets to the core of the country's fiscal problems, not with...
