by Isaiah J. Poole | Sep 28, 2015 | Blog, Tax Reform
Donald Trump has a tax plan for you, and it's going to be "amazing" – especially if you happen to be a billionaire like Trump, or even a mere millionaire. Yes, his tax plan will take millions of lower-income people off the tax rolls. Married couples earning less than...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Sep 23, 2015 | Jobs and Growth
The Federal Reserve's decision last week not to increase interest rates was preceded by a considerable amount of commentary that our economy, with a 5.1 percent overall unemployment rate, was close to "full employment." If an economy has reached "full employment" at a...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Sep 17, 2015 | Jobs and Growth
Hours before the Federal Reserve was to announce whether it would increase interest rates, several dozen protesters gathered outside Federal Reserve offices in downtown Washington to demand that the Fed keep interest rates where they are, arguing that the economy as...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Sep 14, 2015 | Economy, Election 2016, Progressive Vision
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders on Monday went to a pillar of the religious right – Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va. – to make the case that fighting for economic justice is as moral an undertaking as such cornerstone issues for Christian...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Sep 11, 2015 | Education
[fve]https://youtu.be/4kzDSDBkFB8[/fve] A new study released by Brookings this week offers new context for the debate on the student loan crisis by shining a light on the outsized role of for-profit colleges in increasing debt and loan defaults. "The so-called student...
