by Isaiah J. Poole | Feb 2, 2015 | Retirement Security
President Obama's 2016 budget proposal includes language that directly confronts a Republican House maneuver to force a debate on potential Social Security benefit cuts. It also includes a promise that the administration will "oppose any measures that privatize or...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 29, 2015 | Jobs and Growth, Tax Reform
Details of the proposal by Sens. Rand Paul (R-Texas) and Barbara Boxer to raise money to pay for surface transportation projects though a corporate tax break scheme are now out – and they are as bad as many progressive tax reform advocates feared. This unlikely...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 27, 2015 | Jobs and Growth
In a small room inside the U.S. Capitol, Sen. Bernie Sanders today was trying to marshal support for a $1 trillion infrastructure investment bill he formally introduced today, discussing the consequences of not spending money on our roads, public transportation, water...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 26, 2015 | Jobs and Growth, Tax Reform
There is no real argument over whether the nation needs to do more to improve its infrastructure – its transportation, water, power and information networks. But there is an argument over how best to pay for it all – and that argument is increasingly turning in a...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 23, 2015 | Blog, Progressive Vision
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