by Jeff Bryant | Feb 20, 2020 | Blog, Education, Featured, Future of Work
Photo credit: Virginia Department of Education / flickr / cc In the expanding effort to privatize the nation’s public education system, an ominous, less-understood strain of the movement is the corporate influence in Career and Technical Education (CTE) that is...
by Steven Rosenfeld | Feb 19, 2020 | Blog, Election, Featured
As Nevada prepares for 2020 Democratic Party presidential caucuses after four days of early voting, the big question is will there be breakdowns in the reporting and counting of votes that echo Iowa’s chaotic 2020 caucus earlier this month. That question is not...
by Tom Conway | Feb 14, 2020 | Blog, Featured, Future of Work
Glen Heck spent 28 years sweating in a Campti, La., paper mill that he likes to say was “hotter than nine kinds of hell.” But now, Heck’s sacrifice may have been for nothing because his multiemployer pension plan is one of about 150 nationwide set to go broke. If that...
by Steven Rosenfeld | Feb 13, 2020 | Blog, Democracy, Election, Featured
In 2016, New Hampshire Gov. Maggie Hassan, a Democrat, was elected to the U.S. Senate by a 1,017-vote margin. Even though both parties spent millions on the campaign, the key to Hassan’s victory was thousands of college and university students who registered to vote...
by Tim Wilkins | Feb 12, 2020 | Blog, Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Adiel Pollydore Young Voters Make All The Difference For Bernie It took every one of us to bring home Senator Bernie Sanders’ victory in the New Hampshire Primary last night. A lot of us, like me, are young people who have a vision for a sustainable...
by Adiel Pollydore | Feb 12, 2020 | Blog, Election, Environment, Featured
It took every one of us to bring home Senator Bernie Sanders’ victory in the New Hampshire Primary last night. A lot of us, like me, are young people who have a vision for a sustainable and livable future, a vision Bernie shares with us. There’s an alignment between...
