by Jeff Bryant | Apr 12, 2018 | Blog
One of the more interesting stories about the recent release of scores on the 2017 National Assessment of Education Progress (aka. The Nation's Report Card) is not about the scores themselves but the way conservative education policy operatives are spinning them. The...
by Tara Raghuveer | Apr 11, 2018 | Blog
The Fair Housing Act, passed fifty years ago today, was a critical victory of the Civil Rights era and an effort to address generations of systemic racism in housing policy. The law intended to prohibit discrimination concerning the sale, rental, and financing of...
by Jeff Bryant | Apr 11, 2018 | Blog
The momentum of this spring's teacher uprising is growing, as Oklahoma teachers extend their walkout into a second week and teachers in Kentucky and Arizona are increasingly eager for some kind of disruptive action. It's too early to gage the full impact of this...
by Sara Alcid | Apr 10, 2018 | Blog
It’s Equal Pay Day, America. That’s the day when women’s wages finally catch up with what men were paid in the previous year. How much more, you ask, did men receive? $840 billion. That’s a lot of lattes. What would you do with your share of that $840 billion? I can...
by Richard Eskow | Apr 10, 2018 | Blog
In the time it takes to read these words, a child under the age of five will probably die in Yemen. And, as this is being written, the U.N. Security Council is meeting to discuss a gas attack in Syria. President Trump, with newly-appointed National Security Advisor...
by Madison Hardee | Apr 9, 2018 | Blog
The Trump administration has attacked immigrant communities from day one with a range of misguided proposals and executive orders that undermine civil rights and terrify families. These efforts are having devastating effects - right now, as well as potentially long...
