by Isaiah J. Poole | May 7, 2014 | Jobs and Growth, Tax Reform
There is nothing fundamentally wrong with businesses receiving incentives to do the research and development that will lead to the products and services – and jobs – of the future. But the House is about to get it all wrong in today's vote for a research and...
by Isaiah J. Poole | May 1, 2014 | Jobs and Growth, Minimum Wage
If members of the U.S. Senate had bothered to scan the news before they cast their votes Wednesday on whether to allow final debate and passage of a bill that would increase the minimum wage, they would have seen headlines like this one from Bloomberg News: "Growth...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Apr 30, 2014 | Jobs and Growth, Minimum Wage
The Senate is expected to vote today on whether to proceed to final debate on a bill that would raise the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour. It's a key political vote that separates who stands with working people and who doesn't. But, more importantly, it's a vote that...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Apr 25, 2014 | Progressive Vision
Listen Harvey Kaye talks to OurFuture.org about the Four Freedoms and their relevance to today's effort to build a new progressive populist movement. Historian and author Harvey Kaye believes that the key to progressives taking the offensive and creating a winning...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Apr 25, 2014 | Populist Majority, Progressive Vision
This weekend more than 1,000 grassroots activists are scheduled to converge in Washington to launch a new level of progressive populist movement-building, focused on "taking back the Capitol" from corporate interests and the right wing. Chicago-based National People's...
