by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 20, 2013 | Uncategorized
American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees president Lee A. Saunders took to the pages of The Huffington Post this week to call conservatives out on the "class war" they are waging against workers and to assert that unions are "the first and last...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 6, 2013 | Student Debt Relief
The Senate on Thursday, in a real sense, filibustered the future. A Republican minority set themselves up as a roadblock against college students struggling to pay for their education and establish financial stability. A narrow, 51-vote majority in the Senate...
by Isaiah J. Poole | May 31, 2013 | Uncategorized
Today the Social Security trustees released their annual report, and regardless of what you might hear otherwise from the chattering class, the underlying message is that there is no need to consider cuts in Social Security or Medicare benefits. In fact, we can and...
by Isaiah J. Poole | May 20, 2013 | Uncategorized
OurFuture.org's Roger Hickey and Richard Eskow explain during their appearance Sunday on "Pivot Point with Maya Rockeymoore" what it will take for progressives to win the fight against conservative austerity economic policies that are holding down the economy and...
by Isaiah J. Poole | May 20, 2013 | Blog
I got my first job while I was in high school through a small community organization run by Willie J. Hardy, a community activist (and later D.C. City Council member) who operated out of what legendary Washington Post writer William Raspberry described as a "tiny,...
