by Leo Gerard | Jul 14, 2017 | Blog
Ever-worsening is the chasm between the loaded, who luxuriate in gated communities, and the workers, who are hounded at their rickety gates by bill collectors. Even though last week’s Bureau of Labor Statistics report showed unemployment at a low 4.4 percent, wages...
by Aditi Katti | Jul 13, 2017 | Blog
It was a brutally hot and humid day in the nation’s capital and Margie Mathers needed a cane to get up to the podium, but the Florida senior had a story she was determined to tell. “When I moved into our manufactured housing community in North Fort Myers, it was a...
by Peter Certo | Jul 13, 2017 | Blog
I’ve always been a little skeptical that there’d be a smoking gun about the Trump campaign’s alleged collusion with Russia. The latest news about Donald Trump, Jr., however, is tantalizingly close. The short version of the story, revealed by emails the New York Times...
by Jeff Bryant | Jul 13, 2017 | Blog
The nation's largest organization representing classroom teachers, the three million-member National Education Association, is getting plenty of guff over its decision to stonewall U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos. The NEA's latest rejection note to the...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jul 13, 2017 | Blog
Wall Street, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and right-wing Republicans are ganging up again this week against consumers who want to hold financial institutions that rip them off accountable. The target this time is a rule issued this week by the Consumer Financial...
by Josh Crandell | Jul 13, 2017 | Blog
Small businesses can’t compete without an open Internet. Today, hundreds of activists, big companies and small businesses are coming together for a Net Neutrality Day of Action. In 2010, the Obama Administration issued the Open Internet Order, which prohibited...
