by Isaiah J. Poole | Feb 5, 2016 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
The headlines being generated by Friday's jobs report from the Labor Department – the unemployment rate falling below 5 percent for the first time since November 2007 – are a temptation to have policymakers and some politicians to pull their "Mission Accomplished"...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 29, 2016 | Conservatism
With the winter winds of January came a flurry of reports that several states were moving to cut thousands of people from their Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP, or “food stamp") rolls. In New Jersey, for example, Governor Chris Christie pulled the...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 28, 2016 | Election 2016, Retirement Security
At the CNN town hall for the Democratic presidential candidates on Tuesday, Bernie Sanders pointed out that he has with Hillary Clinton "a disagreement on a very important issue that impacts everybody, but especially women": "I believe that we should expand Social...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 28, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016, Progressive Vision
Given the importance of the African-American vote in the Democratic primary and the questions around whether Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders – a self-styled "Democratic socialist" in a state that is 1 percent black – can effectively compete for the...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 26, 2016 | Election 2016, Progressive Vision
For those who have been closely watching the Democratic presidential contest between Hillary Clinton, Martin O'Malley and Bernie Sanders, Tuesday night's Iowa town hall discussion on CNN did not reveal anything dramatically new about the candidates. But it perhaps...
