by Jeff Bryant | May 12, 2016 | Blog, Education
Last week was Teacher Appreciation Week. So some folks thought it might be a swell idea to ask teachers how "appreciated" they feel. The short answer? Not so much. Results of a wide-ranging new survey of 3,328 K-12 classroom teachers finds the nation's front-line...
by Dave Johnson | May 12, 2016 | Blog, Trade
Economists are still arguing over whether moving our jobs out of the country affects what the people still here get paid. Yes, really. For example, Jared Bernstein in The Washington Post looks at different studies of the effect of moving jobs out of the country. One...
by Damon Silvers | May 12, 2016 | Blog
Throughout the developed world, extreme right wing politics have surfaced in ways not seen since the Second World War. In Europe, parties of the far right have levels of public support that would have been unthinkable even a decade ago. In the United States, Donald...
by Dave Johnson | May 11, 2016 | Blog, Financial Reform
The Treasury Department released a new rule and several proposals last week that they said are intended to address the problem of corruption and dirty money in secret U.S. shell companies. A White House news release announced what it called "several important steps to...
by Bill Scher | May 11, 2016 | Blog
The most recent round of Quinnipiac polls re-ignited Democratic fears that Donald Trump could actually win the presidency. The polls put him ahead of Hillary Clinton by 4 in Ohio, and behind her by only 1 point in Florida and Pennsylvania. Democrats should not be...
by Robert Borosage | May 11, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016, Progressive Vision
West Virginia really likes Bernie Sanders. He swept the Democratic primary yesterday, winning 51.4 percent to Clinton’s 36 percent, even in the face of the mainstream media essentially declaring the race over. Speaking in Salem, Ore., Sanders described the key to his...
