by Robert Borosage | May 26, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016, Progressive Vision
Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has vowed to drive his bold policies ideas – from a $15 minimum wage and reviving union rights to tuition-free college and Medicare for All – into the Democratic Party platform to write the "strongest progressive agenda that any...
by Courtney Freudenthal | May 25, 2016 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
As a Class of 2015 graduate from the University of Chicago, Brianna Tong considers herself fortunate. She has a job that she loves that makes her degree worth attaining – as a lead organizer with the IIRON Student Network. But her work puts her in contact with plenty...
by Isaiah J. Poole | May 25, 2016 | Blog, Financial Reform
[fve]https://youtu.be/ff8GZXOuWIs[/fve] Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) helped kick off the "Take On Wall Street" campaign on Tuesday by detailing the work that remains undone by the Dodd-Frank financial reforms that were signed into law six years ago. "The rules that...
by Dave Johnson | May 24, 2016 | Blog, Financial Reform
[fve]https://youtu.be/VEZeUTTJgCI[/fve]Rep. Nydia Velázquez (D-N.Y.) explains how Wall Street financial interests contributed to the economic crisis in Puerto Rico at the "Take On Wall Street" campaign event Tuesday at the U.S. Capitol. In 2008 Wall Street got...
by Terrance Heath | May 24, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
Three years after the Senate passed ENDA, and president Obama signed executive orders protecting LGBT employees of federal contractors from discrimination, House Republicans voted to write anti-LGBT discrimination in law. The floor of the House of Representatives...
by Frank Clemente | May 24, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
It is critical that candidates for the highest office in the land release their income tax returns for multiple years, especially you Mr. Trump. After all, you are running for president based on your wealth and business ability. And every other presidential candidate...
