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How the "People's Budget" Can Help Redress Inequality

The Congressional Progressive Caucus released “The People’s Budget” this week, which it dubs a “roadmap for the resistance.” Maybe the mere mention of a federal budget plan makes your eyes glaze over, but the “People’s Budget” is a dramatic document. Representative...

Bill Bradley Looks Back, but Forgets Fading of Equality

Bitter partisanship. Hopeless gridlock. A tax code littered with loopholes that only special interests could love. Washington’s latest attempt to overhaul the federal tax code, the first under Donald Trump, is getting underway with all these familiar realities in...

The Democrats' Dilemma On Charter Schools

President Donald Trump's adamant promotion of "school choice," and his selection of Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education, put Democratic advocates for charter schools in a bind. Some Dems are now scrambling to keep the well-polished luster of the charter school brand...

The Right Doesn't Understand Protesters; Big Surprise

Why would a bunch of protesters show up at the Heritage Foundation to call them out for supporting policies that slash and privatize critical government programs that serve low-income and working-class communities? That seems to be the puzzle perplexing Heritage's...

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