by Miles Mogulescu | Jan 29, 2020 | Blog, Democracy, Election, Featured
Joe Biden’s strongest argument to be the Democratic Presidential nominee is that he has the best chance of defeating Donald Trump. There’s a clear way to test this. Democrats should accept the challenge being floated by some Republicans to trade witness testimony by...
by Marsha Cole | Jan 29, 2020 | Blog, Democracy, Economy, Featured, Housing
Marsha Cole speaks on Capitol Hill at 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 29, on behalf of People's Action and the Jane Addams Senior Caucus, to introduce the People's Housing Platform. Click here to watch the livestream. I’ve been to Washington, D.C. three times in my life....
by Michael McKinley | Jan 28, 2020 | Blog, Election, Featured, Health, I Speak, Inequality
I’m an Iowan, a father, and a voter. And I’m just plain tired of the lies too many candidates tell us about health care. They say we don’t need Medicare For All, when I know that we do. These candidates parrot lines they’re fed by big pharma, big insurers and big...
by Tom Conway | Jan 27, 2020 | Blog, Economy, Featured, Trade
Photo credit: White House / Shealah Craighead / cc Donald Trump, the self-proclaimed “great negotiator” and author of “The Art of the Deal,” promised to use his bargaining skills to help the American worker. Trump vowed to rewrite trade deals, stanch the offshoring of...
by Alex Lawson | Jan 24, 2020 | Blog, Democracy, Election, Featured, Health
Photo credit: Gage Skidmore / flickr / cc Recently, a newsletter from the Bernie Sanders campaign laid out Joe Biden’s long record of supporting cuts to Social Security. The website PolitiFact weighed in on one part of that record, a speech Biden gave in 2018 in which...
by Tim Wilkins | Jan 23, 2020 | Blog
MORNING MESSAGE Tobita Chow We Need A Real Trade Deal With China, Not Just A Truce Trump crows that the “Phase One” trade agreement with China is a “promise kept” to supporters to rebalance trade between the two nations. But it is really just a temporary truce in his...
