by Isaiah J. Poole | Mar 24, 2014 | Education
An article posted on Politico today adds new evidence of the damage being done to K-12 education under the guise of "school choice," and how much many of us are paying to place some of our own core values under attack: about $1 billion across 14 states with school...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Mar 21, 2014 | Retirement Security
When this story broke earlier this week, it did not get nearly the attention it deserved, so it bears repeating now: 36 percent of workers, according to one poll, have less than $1,000 saved for their retirement. That comes from the Employee Benefit Research...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Mar 20, 2014 | Better Off Budget
[fve]http://youtu.be/MPoAc7FVk0E[/fve] "Full employment," according to some economists and policymakers, is not as full as it used to be. The upshot is that many people in Washington are beginning to regard as "normal" what should be unacceptable. That's one more...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Mar 14, 2014 | Unemployment Benefits
After all that 2 million of this nation's unemployed workers have gone through, it is hard to say anything positive about the news that Senate Democratic leaders have reached a deal with five Senate Republicans on a renewal of emergency unemployment benefits that were...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Mar 12, 2014 | Better Off Budget, The 2015 Budget
The Congressional Progressive Caucus releases a federal budget proposal today that, if it were fully enacted, is projected to create almost 9 million jobs over the next three years. As a statement of values as well as policy, the Caucus' proposal – called "The Better...
