by Richard Long | Apr 29, 2015 | Blog, Education
Tyrone Hankerson, a graduating senior at Howard University, is in a particularly good position to see the impact of today’s student loan debt crisis firsthand – even though he has managed to head into graduation without student debt overhanging him personally. That is...
by Richard Long | Mar 27, 2015 | Retirement Security
Imagine your career winding down and being presented with these two offers: $1,500 a month for the rest of your life, or a $350,000 lump sum that you can use however you see fit. Which would you choose? How would you make sure you lived comfortably for the rest of...
by Richard Long | Feb 26, 2015 | Retirement Security
[fve]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DNJbVRnANs&feature=youtu.be[/fve] Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.) has called out his Senate Republican colleagues for “creating a phony crisis” with regard to Social Security while ignoring a real one – the income inequality that...
by Richard Long | Apr 29, 2014 | Jobs and Growth, Minimum Wage
As the National Restaurant Association prepared for its annual lobbying days inside the Capitol this week, more than a thousand grassroots activists went to the Capitol on Monday to demand that the voice of workers and their demand for a fairer economy that works for...
by Richard Long | Apr 2, 2014 | Better Off Budget, Blog
A day after the release of Paul Ryan’s “Path to Prosperity” budget, members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus gathered to discuss their own “Better Off Budget,” outside a room in the Cannon House Building where the House Budget Committee was marking up the Ryan...
