by Isaiah J. Poole | Nov 17, 2014 | Progressive Vision
[fve]http://youtu.be/A1_Og-lfDtw[/fve] Zephyr Teachout, who challenged New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo from the left earlier this year, encouraged other progressives to follow her lead at a recent forum in Washington – including fielding a primary challenge against Hillary...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Nov 14, 2014 | Blog, Populist Majority
It remains true, as we have asserted time and again using findings on our Populist Majority website, that the American majority is firmly populist and broadly progressive. But we have also seen time and again – most recently in this month's elections – that people...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Nov 7, 2014 | Jobs and Growth
The latest jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics confirms what voters felt when they went to the polls Tuesday: Job growth continues slowly but inadequately, built on a weak foundation of weak wage growth and low labor force participation. There were 214,000...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Oct 30, 2014 | Populist Majority, Progressive Vision
Democratic pollster Stan Greenberg is not all doom and gloom about the Democratic Party's chances of keeping control of the Senate. The polls may suggest otherwise, but Greenberg still sees a way for Democrats to have a good outcome Tuesday – and it's through the...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Oct 29, 2014 | Conservatism, Jobs and Growth
Seven Republican governors who rode 2010s tea-party political wave into office, promising that their budget-slashing, tax-cutting and bowing to corporate interests would unleash economic prosperity, are now being judged harshly by voters now that their right-wing...
