by Isaiah J. Poole | Feb 17, 2015 | Democracy
It is unacceptable that the Supreme Court has given corporations the constitutional right to use their money to manipulate how ballots are cast in our elections, but has yet to assert that citizens have a constitutional right to cast those ballots to begin with....
by Isaiah J. Poole | Feb 13, 2015 | Conservatism, Tax Reform
Here's a question to ask New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie the next time he appears at a public event: "Why is it in your state the top 1 percent of income earners pay state taxes at a rate that is on average 28 percent less than what middle-income earners pay?" Then...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Feb 11, 2015 | Jobs and Growth
Unless progressives intervene, a scandalous corporate tax ripoff could gain some serious momentum on Capitol Hill today when President Obama's transportation secretary, Anthony Foxx, makes his scheduled appearance before the House Transportation and Infrastructure...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Feb 6, 2015 | Jobs and Growth
The largely positive January jobs report – 257,000 new jobs created, and only a slight uptick in the unemployment to 5.7 percent due to more people coming into the job market – raises a key question: Can this fragile growth be protected from a Republican Congress that...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Feb 4, 2015 | Economy
As former Department of Labor Secretary Robert Reich says in the above video, there's a lot to like about California, including the fact that it is electorally a solidly blue state with many good progressive elected officials. But what's bad about California is that...
