by Bill Scher | May 19, 2016 | Blog
In an interview with Reuters, Donald Trump pledge to take apart President Obama's Wall Street reform: The New York billionaire said he planned to release a detailed policy platform in two weeks that would propose dismantling nearly all of Dodd-Frank, a package of...
by Jeff Bryant | May 19, 2016 | Blog, Education
You've probably heard about the fierce battle over school bathrooms raging across the country. It's an important story for sure because transgender students should not be blocked from entering facilities of their gender identity. But the current fight over gender...
by Terrance Heath | May 18, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
Founding Father Thomas Jefferson is often credited with saying, “The government closest to the people serves them best.” Republicans in North Carolina — and elsewhere — think they know better. In Charlotte, North Carolina, “the government closest to the people”...
by Dave Johnson | May 18, 2016 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
[fve]https://youtu.be/UFJaDm720FU[/fve] Overtime pay for working more than 40 hours a week is a right that had been taken away from many workers, but now they are getting the right back, thanks to a new rule the Obama administration issued Wednesday. This is a big,...
by Robert Borosage | May 18, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016, Progressive Vision
Bernie Sanders won the Oregon primary big last night – 54 percent to 45 percent for Hillary Clinton – while ending in a virtual tie in Kentucky (Clinton, 46.8 percent vs. Sanders, 46.3 percent). Both states were closed primaries, with independents barred from voting....
by Isaiah J. Poole | May 17, 2016 | Blog, Economy, Jobs and Growth
[fve]https://youtu.be/6QHVgfIGync[/fve] Donna Mossman remembers the day, back in the 1970s living with her parents in an apartment in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y., that water cascaded through the living room wall. Looking back, that was a...
