by Isaiah J. Poole | Feb 18, 2014 | Minimum Wage
Here's what you need to keep in mind about the Congressional Budget Office report that is generating headlines that a $10.10 minimum wage could cost 500,000 jobs: That report is not the indictment that it is being made out to be in the mainstream media and by...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Feb 14, 2014 | Retirement Security
NOTE: After this post was published, The New York Times reported that PBS has returned a $3.5 million grant it had received from the right-wing Laura and John Arnold Foundation to produce a series of reports on what it called "The Pension Peril." The PBS decision was...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Feb 13, 2014 | Unemployment Benefits
The decision by Sens. Dan Coats (R-Ind.) and Rob Portman (R-Ohio) to join a filibuster of a measure to renew emergency jobless benefits is not only a moral disgrace, as Robert Borosage declared Wednesday. The reason they cited for doing so would advance an...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Feb 12, 2014 | Jobs and Growth
In trying to do an end run around conservatives in Congress who are blocking adequate funding for badly needed improvements to our strained transportation networks and the jobs those improvements would create, is Congress and the Obama administration setting us up for...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Feb 10, 2014 | Democracy, Progressive Vision
[fve]http://youtu.be/entactmHPEY[/fve] The scene was Raleigh, N.C., but for many of the people who were there the message and its impact was intended to be national: There is a growing populist resistance to the conservative extremist agenda, and the tens of thousands...
