by Isaiah J. Poole | Dec 15, 2015 | Jobs and Growth
A sustained campaign on behalf of Senate cafeteria workers – including a 63-year-old employee who was homeless because he could not earn enough money to afford an apartment – has succeeded this week in getting these workers a desperately needed boost in pay and...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Dec 14, 2015 | Climate
Imagine if the 10 Commandments were written under the same political constraints as the just-completed climate change accord in Paris. “We cannot do this,” Secretary of State John Kerry would tell Moses as he saw the word "shall" chiseled into the stone tablets. And...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Dec 10, 2015 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
[fve]https://youtu.be/oO4fUuuYbbo[/fve]Economist Robert Pollin explains in this interview how government buying decisions can help boost U.S. manufacturing. This should be a no-brainer: As much as possible, every dollar our federal government spends should help...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Dec 8, 2015 | Blog
Hillary Clinton's op-ed in The New York Times Monday on how she would handle Wall Street and financial reform as president appears so far to have landed with a thud. There is little evidence that it has sparked the kind of political debate that would be warranted by a...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Dec 4, 2015 | Jobs and Growth
President Obama finally had on his desk Friday a $305 billion, five-year surface transportation bill – a rare legislative accomplishment in an era where gridlock and obstruction on any government action that would create jobs and grow the economy is the rule. But, as...
