by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 13, 2015 | Blog
[fve]https://www.youtu.be/1NjTxwyMiGw[/fve] Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), the ranking Democrat on the House Budget Committee, unveiled a major tax proposal on Monday at the Center for American Progress that was billed as "An Action Plan to Grow the Paychecks of All,...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 12, 2015 | Education
Rev. William Barber, the president of the NAACP's North Carolina chapter and the leader of the state's "Moral Mondays" movement joined education advocates in New York State today in a protest against inequitable education funding. The protest coincided with a report...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 9, 2015 | Education
Even today, it can still be stunning sometimes how unadorned conservatives can be in their contempt for ordinary people and their struggles. Take Ed Morrissey at Hot Air, who complains that President Obama's proposal for free community college is "merely a construct...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 8, 2015 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
This week there are signs of a crack in the no-tax-increase-no-way-no-how stance of the Republican Party in Congress. Now that they have control of both the House and the Senate, it is the Republicans' turn to figure out on their own how to pay for the federal program...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 8, 2015 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
More than 300 progressive activists and labor leaders on Wednesday embraced "raising wages" as the theme of a series of battles in 2015 to reverse policies that have led to record levels of income inequality and a shrinking middle class. "We are tired of people...
