by Isaiah J. Poole | May 8, 2014 | Blog, Winning Issues for 2014
Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn), the co-chairman of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, has a sharp warning for Democrats in an exclusive interview with Truthout.org: Focus less on fund-raising and more on people and their need for progressive, populist solutions to...
by Dave Johnson | May 8, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth, Minimum Wage
This week North Carolina's Tom Tillis won the state's primary to become the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate. Then he appeared on Chuck Todd's show on MSNBC and was asked about raising the federal minimum wage. Tillis replied with the standard Republican...
by Derek Pugh | May 6, 2014 | Education, Student Debt Relief
Declaring that the burden of student loan debt is "an emergency," Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren took to the Senate floor on Tuesday to introduce a bill that would allow graduates to refinance their loans at lower rates. “Student loan debt is exploding. And it...
by Isaiah J. Poole | May 1, 2014 | Jobs and Growth, Minimum Wage
If members of the U.S. Senate had bothered to scan the news before they cast their votes Wednesday on whether to allow final debate and passage of a bill that would increase the minimum wage, they would have seen headlines like this one from Bloomberg News: "Growth...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Apr 30, 2014 | Jobs and Growth, Minimum Wage
The Senate is expected to vote today on whether to proceed to final debate on a bill that would raise the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour. It's a key political vote that separates who stands with working people and who doesn't. But, more importantly, it's a vote that...
by Bill Scher | Apr 30, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth, Minimum Wage
Today at noon ET, the Senate is scheduled to vote on a bill to raise the hourly minimum wage to $10.10, and then index it to inflation. Actually, that's not quite right. The vote would allow the Senate to begin debate on the minimum wage bill. And if media reports are...
