by Isaiah J. Poole | Nov 24, 2014 | Blog, Progressive Vision
Rev. William Barber II's new book, "Forward Together: A Moral Message To The Nation," traces the advance of the Moral Mondays movement in North Carolina, which rose up in response to the right-wing takeover of the North Carolina state government in 2012. But what it...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Nov 21, 2014 | Economy, Progressive Vision
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio has issued a blunt critique of his fellow Democrats on why they lost the midterm elections and what they have to do to win electoral majorities again. In an interview with Danny Feingold at the news site Capital and Main, de Blasio said...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Nov 20, 2014 | Economy, Tax Reform
Walmart avoids paying on average $1 billion a year in federal taxes through aggressively exploiting tax loopholes – and it has an army of lobbyists working on cutting its tax bill by at least another $720 million, according to a report released today by Americans for...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Nov 19, 2014 | Financial Reform
Little-noticed articles in The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal in the past month disclosed that private equity firms – notorious for taking over companies and stripping them of jobs and investment to maximize profit for the private equity partners – are...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Nov 18, 2014 | Tax Reform
This week leaders in Congress are trying to decide what action to take on a set of "tax extenders" – a hodge-podge of tax breaks that range from the arguably meritorious to the patently absurd that could cost the government as much as $590 billion if Congress adopted...
