by Isaiah J. Poole | Apr 30, 2015 | Blog, Populist Majority
At a time when polls often show a high level of skepticism and even antipathy toward government, progressive pollster Celinda Lake offered some contrarian advice Wednesday to the "Families First: Good Jobs for All" meeting sponsored by the Center for Community Change:...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Apr 29, 2015 | Blog
The nation is now seeing that there is a broader story to be told about the roots of the violence that broke out in Baltimore this week. In addition to the mistreatment of African Americans by police, there is also the story of extreme economic deprivation – the...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Apr 27, 2015 | Jobs and Growth, Trade
In the continuing battle over whether Congress should pass fast track authority legislation for the Trans-Pacific Partnership, Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch today unleashed the latest salvo: a list of more than 2,000 organizations in opposition to the trade bill...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Apr 21, 2015 | Populism2015, Progressive Vision
There is one respect in which politics is like investing: You don't put your eggs in one basket. The lesson we learned from the Barack Obama presidency is that while it is good to invest some of our hopes in a presidential candidate, no single candidate warrants the...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Apr 16, 2015 | Jobs and Growth, Populism2015
The wave of "Fight for $15" demonstrations that swept the country Wednesday were in themselves a big deal – actions in more than 230 cities in the United States and in several foreign cities in which hundreds of thousands of workers walked off their jobs to protest...
