by Isaiah J. Poole | Nov 1, 2013 | Progressive Vision
Pull back the curtain of many of the key moments of progressive history over the better part of the last five decades and you will find Marge Tabankin, encouraging, supporting and agitating. It's something that comes naturally to her. In an interview she did last year...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Oct 25, 2013 | Minimum Wage
Nancy Salgado has been working at McDonald's in Chicago for 10 years, and for that whole time she has been working at Illinois' minimum wage, now $8.25 an hour. As a mother with two young children, that puts her below the poverty line of $19,530. McDonald's says it...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Oct 24, 2013 | Minimum Wage
Nancy Salgado has been working at McDonald's in Chicago for 10 years, and for that whole time she has been working at Illinois' minimum wage, now $8.25 an hour. As a mother with two young children, that puts her below the poverty line of $19,530. McDonald's says it...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Oct 22, 2013 | Conservatism
People are having problems logging into the website, pages appear to be frozen and the information users are typing into the site doesn't appear to be getting to the right people or seems to disappear altogether. But this isn't yet another story about HealthCare.gov,...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Oct 21, 2013 | Retirement Security
The right-wing American Legislative Exchange Council has jumped into the conservative effort to dismantle public pension systems in a big way, making it one of its top 2014 legislative priorities, a public pension advocacy group has warned. The National Public Pension...
