by Jeff Bryant | Mar 3, 2017 | Blog
“We've not done enough to help kids at the lower end of the socio-economic rungs,” says labor economist and Stanford University professor Martin Carnoy. It's not an accident these families, particularly in the African American community, are demanding vouchers,...
by Richard Eskow | Mar 2, 2017 | Blog
Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III is a man out of time, a holdover from an age when some people believed that certain groups were exempt from the rule of law. He may be out of time in another way, too: His days as Attorney General might be numbered. Even in the...
by Robert Borosage | Mar 2, 2017 | Blog
Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign sensibly concluded that Donald Trump was so obviously unfit for office that he could not be elected. He was shockingly unprepared, corrupted, juvenile, poisonous, and often simply repugnant. Clinton chose to make...
by Jeff Bryant | Mar 2, 2017 | Blog
President Donald Trump is being praised for a change in tone in his recent address to Congress, but his belligerent attitude toward public education hasn't changed a bit. While it's true he stopped short of repeating his claims that public schools are "broken" and a...
by Mark Trahant | Mar 2, 2017 | Blog
President Donald J. Trump is set to deliver a financial blow to Indian Country. His first budget will propose cuts of at least $54 billion and an amount that he will add to Defense Spending. The president will check off his promises from the campaign (even those that...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 2, 2017 | Blog
President Trump is said to be preparing to privatize key public services, including the Veterans Administration (VA), public schools, and public broadcasting, expanding private prisons and launching a privatized infrastructure program. Republicans in Congress want to...
