by Jeff Bryant | Apr 21, 2016 | Blog, Education
Does this sound like a place you'd like to work? The work environment is "depressing" … "morale is at an all-time low." "It feels like a lot of busy work and hoop jumping and detracts from the work." "Every move … needs to be documented and noted." "We have to respond...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 21, 2016 | Blog, Trade
Yes, much of Donald Trump's message has a white nationalist and anti-woman character to it. But here is a warning: If Hillary Clinton is going to be the Democratic nominee she had better get tough on trade – and mean it. One of Donald Trump' main elements of appeal to...
by Justin Talbot-Zorn | Apr 21, 2016 | Blog, Economy, People's Budget
In recent years, the Congressional Progressive Caucus has spearheaded policy ideas, from debt-free college to the $15 minimum wage, that have gained incredible momentum from city halls to presidential debate stages. Predictably, Republicans’ responses to these ideas...
by Terrance Heath | Apr 21, 2016 | Blog, Progressive Vision
On Tuesday night, our neighborhood in Montgomery County, Md., had no water. It had been temporarily turned off between 9 p.m. and 5 a.m. by the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission, as workers worked to replace the decades-old water mains that run beneath the busy...
by Robert Reich | Apr 20, 2016 | Blog, Financial Reform
Why is there so little discussion about one of Bernie Sanders’s most important proposals – to tax financial speculation? Buying and selling stocks and bonds in order to beat others who are buying and selling stocks and bonds is a giant zero-sum game that wastes...
by Bill Scher | Apr 20, 2016 | Blog, Climate
The historic international Paris climate agreement will be formally signed by 155 nations on Earth Day this Friday, but scientific reports since the pact's forging in December that indicate a more urgent climate crisis are renewing the question of whether the...
