by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 16, 2015 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
A White House announcement today made it clear that progressives will be on their own in the battle to boost public investment in our public assets. The White House today announced the creation of an infrastructure bonds program designed to attract private financing...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 16, 2015 | Progressive Vision
This weekend, National People's Action is highlighting an effort to "reclaim" the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. memorial holiday from "efforts to soften, sanitize, and commercialize" his legacy. "We resist efforts to reduce a long history marred with the blood of...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 15, 2015 | Health
A new study has put a price tag on how much more the United States pays in health care costs because it has chosen not to adopt a single-payer system: $375 billion. That figure, in a report published this week in the online journal BMC Health Services Research,...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 14, 2015 | Conservatism
You may have seen media reports today like this one from The New York Times based on the latest annual report from the Internal Revenue Service's Taxpayer Advocate Service. "Services to taxpayers are likely to drop to their worst levels since 2001," the Times wrote,...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 13, 2015 | Blog, Tax Reform
A day after Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) put forward a proposal that melds progressive tax reform ideas with a plan for a broad middle-class tax cut, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse on Tuesday released a "tax fairness plan" that would ensure that people with...
