by Isaiah J. Poole | Feb 25, 2015 | Financial Reform
[fve]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBs6H1P7Wd0[/fve] A broad range of progressive organizations is throwing support behind the Obama administration's effort to rein in financial advisers who market retirement funds. Americans for Financial Reform sent a letter of...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Feb 25, 2015 | Economy, Jobs and Growth
[fve]http://youtu.be/twVCSOpsSQ0[/fve] There is a far more important political question right now for Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) than the continuing attempts to coax her into a presidential campaign and her dogged refusal to take the bait. She, along with Rep....
by Isaiah J. Poole | Feb 24, 2015 | Jobs and Growth
Tipped workers in New York state have won a major victory, as Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the state's Hospitality Wage Board announce that their minimum wage, which had been frozen at $5 an hour, will be increased to $7.50 an hour starting December 31. This order follows...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Feb 20, 2015 | Jobs and Growth
With much of America suffering through oppressively cold weather, perhaps a summer baseball analogy is in order: American workers have just scored a run in the middle innings of a battle for economic justice and dignity. There are more innings to play and more runs...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Feb 18, 2015 | Economy
[fve]http://youtu.be/GYGGkUzV6YU[/fve] Progressives need to step up their opposition to any moves by the Federal Reserve to increase interest rates in the near future, economist Dean Baker of the Center for Economic and Policy Research told a group of progressive...
