by Joshua Ferrer | Jul 14, 2015 | Climate
The Obama administration has taken an important step toward ensuring that America’s poorest residents – those who stand to gain the most from reductions in their energy costs – are no longer left out of the green energy boom. Last week’s announcement of a number of...
by Joshua Ferrer | Jul 9, 2015 | Democracy
[fve]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkCuDmaeDd0[/fve] People from across the nation will converge on Winston-Salem, N.C. this coming Monday to march for voting rights in the state that has come to symbolize voter suppression. “North Carolina is our Selma” is the...
by Joshua Ferrer | Jul 9, 2015 | Climate
House Republican leadership pulled a monstrosity of an appropriations bill from the floor after Democrats attached an amendment that would ban Confederate flags from federal cemeteries. That upset some Republican House members, who then offered an amendment to roll...
by Joshua Ferrer | Jul 6, 2015 | Democracy
Amid a bipartisan chorus urging prison reform and an end to mass incarceration, Democratic presidential candidate Martin O’Malley’s words are ringing awfully flat. Like many others, O’Malley urges an end to mass incarceration and more police restraint. His record as...
by Joshua Ferrer | Jun 29, 2015 | Blog
Beth Hughes of Tippecanoe County, Ind., is raising three kids with a fourth on the way. She works part time, and her husband is attending graduate school at Purdue while working as a research assistant. Their total annual income clocks in at $19,200 and they depend on...
