by Jeff Bryant | Apr 14, 2017 | Blog
Jay Badams has reached the limits of his patience. As superintendent of Erie, Pennsylvania schools since 2009, he’s dealt with the chronic underfunding of his schools for years. Every year, he and his staff grapple with ever more painful budget cuts. He and his staff...
by Lois Gibbs | Apr 13, 2017 | Blog
As we begin our national conversation about tax reform, why don’t we start with low-hanging fruit – the things we can all agree are right? Why not reinstate the Superfund tax, which used to make polluters pay to clean up their own mess? By reinstating this “Polluter...
by Sam Pizzigati | Apr 13, 2017 | Blog
Those of us on the shady side of sixty can remember when ordinary people could actually enjoy traveling on an airplane. There were meals on all but short-hop flights. Comfortable seats with ample legroom. Plenty of space to stow your bags, since flights seldom took...
by Jeff Bryant | Apr 13, 2017 | Blog
In this season of resistance, there's no issue more imperative to your community than the fight for public education. While Congress is in recess, until April 23, you've got the opportunity – and a brand new advocacy tool from the Network for Public Education – to...
by Richard Eskow | Apr 12, 2017 | Blog
White House Budget Director Mick Mulvaney has issued a declaration of class war against the American people. His words may have sounded wonkish or technical, but underneath the coded language, Mulvaney was expressing Republicans' extreme ideas with unusual directness....
by Robert Borosage | Apr 12, 2017 | Blog
Donald Trump’s feverish tweeting appears to be contagious. Amid a chorus of praise for the administration’s cruise missile strike on a Syrian airbase last week, Neera Tanden, the head of the Center for American Progress, dashed off a tweet calling on voters in Hawaii...