by Isaiah J. Poole | Dec 23, 2013 | Economy, Trans-Pacific Partnership
During the commemorations this month of the life of South African freedom fighter Nelson Mandela, only occasionally did the media touch on the unfulfilled dreams of economic equality for black South Africans. And when they did, they almost never explored the role...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Dec 19, 2013 | Climate
Now the Koch brothers are coming after my solar panels. I had solar panels installed on the roof of our Washington, D.C. home this year. My household took advantage of a generous tax incentive from the District government and a creative leasing deal offered by the...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Dec 18, 2013 | Economy
For many of us on the ground, this feels a bit like the people in the ivory towers finally beginning to figure out the obvious thing that's troubling the ant-like creatures they see far below. This "duh" moment is an Associated Press survey published today based on...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Dec 18, 2013 | Uncategorized
The D.C. Fight for Low-Wage Workers Nation's capital raises its minimum wage to $11.50 by 2016. From local news blog DCist: "In a rather anticlimactic moment, the D.C. Council unanimously passed an increase in the minimum wage today to one of the highest levels in the...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Dec 16, 2013 | Financial Reform
You probably don't pay much attention to those stories about companies doing "stock buybacks" – that's when a company decides to buy shares of its own stock, taking those shares off the market with the hope that the remaining shares of stock will increase in price....
