by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 16, 2015 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
The Federal Reserves Open Market Committee started a two-day series of meeting today, and on Wednesday Fed Chair Janet Yellen is expected to announce the latest verdict on if, and perhaps when, interest rates will begin to rise. The conventional wisdom is that as the...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 12, 2015 | Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
You did it. Despite furious lobbying by the Fortune 500, entreaties from the Republican leadership in Congress and personal, last-minute appeals from President Obama, fast-track trade authority for the Trans-Pacific Partnership has been thrown off-track. A sweeping...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 9, 2015 | Education
Fairness in school funding is "the sleeper civil rights issue of our time," says Leadership Conference on Civil Rights president Wade Henderson. But it's clear from a new report by the Education Law Center that this issue comes with a loud alarm: In many states around...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 4, 2015 | Conservatism, Economy, Greek Crisis
[fve]https://youtu.be/kAIa5X56_jk[/fve] There's a common thread between the appropriation bills being voted on in the House of Representatives this week and the Greek debt crisis, which also appears to be coming to a head this week: conservative austerity ideology...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 2, 2015 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
[fve]https://youtu.be/TMpn97UXO5I[/fve] Scott Klinger of the Center for Effective Government explains how fair corporate taxes would help close the nation's infrastructure spending deficit. It's too bad that Congress was out of session this past Friday. Members would...
