by Liz Ryan Murray | Jun 2, 2016 | Blog, Financial Reform
The stories are endless. ● A woman in Wisconsin cashed out her retirement savings of $28,000 to help her daughter get out from under a payday loan that started as just a few hundred dollars to help pay the bills. ● A man in Alabama took out a title loan...
by Jeff Bryant | Jun 1, 2016 | Blog, Education
First Lady Michelle Obama is scheduled on Friday to provide a commencement address to the graduating class of 3,000 students at The City College of New York in Harlem. As the White House announcement states, her address has some additional historic significance in...
by Terrance Heath | Jun 1, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), has called Donald Trump “a loser” who made his money by “cheating people with scams.” A look into Trump University’s records, as well as Trump’s other business deals suggests that Warren was right on the money. A reunion of Trump...
by Dave Johnson | May 31, 2016 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
More and more the word is getting out that President Obama, along with the giant multinational corporations and Wall Street, will launch a push in Congress to pass the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) during the "lame duck" legislative session following the election....
by Dave Johnson | May 31, 2016 | Blog, Economy, Jobs and Growth, Progressive Vision
The long Verizon strike has ended, and the unions won. This means that the American middle class won, too. Verizon is an extremely profitable company. But even with massive, astonishing profits the company was demanding that its workers provide givebacks, allow...
by Dave Johnson | May 31, 2016 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
OurFuture.org's Richard Eskow discussed the Trans-Pacific Partnership's "Democracy Hijacking" with Lori Wallach, Director of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch, this past weekend on his radio show "The Zero Hour with Richard Eskow." The "hijacking" refers to a...
