by Jeff Bryant | Oct 11, 2017 | Blog
With less than a year in office, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is already having the narrative of her impact on the nation's public schools recast from someone with the power to "single-handedly decimate our public education system" to someone who is capable of only...
by Robert Borosage | Oct 11, 2017 | Blog
The Republican tax plan is a lie. It’s being sold with the promise that the tax cut will create jobs and growth. In fact, the Republican tax cuts, if passed, will become the major obstacle to the very investments vital to generating good jobs and future economic...
by Ben Ishibashi | Oct 10, 2017 | Blog
Donald Trump and his Environmental Protection Agency chief, Scott Pruitt, think undoing all that has gone before them is something to celebrate. With no real accomplishments of their own, they revel in their power to destroy, rather than defend. This is what Pruitt...
by Jessica Juarez Scruggs | Oct 10, 2017 | Blog
Can one emergency expense ruin your life? It can if you get caught up in the traps set millions of times each year for ordinary working people by payday loan sharks. Stephany Morales was a single mom in college, studying to be a nurse, when her toddler got a chest...
by Richard Eskow | Oct 6, 2017 | Blog
Astronomers tell us the stars we see in the night sky died many millennia ago. Their light has spent eons crossing the emptiness of space. To us, they still seem to glitter and shine, but were extinguished long ago. Last week, the Washington Post ran an op-ed about...
by Jeff Bryant | Oct 5, 2017 | Blog
When the U.S. Department of Education recently announced its list of recipients of over a quarter billion dollars in federally funded grants to charter schools, charter management organizations, and charter development agencies, charter skeptics cast a suspicious eye...
