by Leo Gerard | Mar 8, 2016 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
Last year, free trade hammered Michigan’s 11th Congressional District, located between Detroit and Flint, killing manufacturing, costing jobs and crushing dreams. It’s not over, either. Another 11th District company, ViSalus Inc., told the state it would eliminate 87...
by Sam Pizzigati | Mar 8, 2016 | Blog, Economy, Progressive Vision
The deep pockets that make up America’s top 1 percent have been on quite a run. Their share of the nation’s wealth, as economist Gabriel Zucman details in a new Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality analysis, has soared from 25 percent in the 1970s to 42 percent...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 8, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016, Progressive Vision
In Sunday's Democratic presidential debate, just two days before Michigan's primary takes place, Hillary Clinton dropped a 'gotcha' bomb on Bernie Sanders, saying Sanders "was against the auto bailout." (Clinton is also running ads on Michigan radio making the same...
by Bill Scher | Mar 7, 2016 | Blog
At Real Clear Politics, I explain why Donald Trump would get outspent in a general election against Hillary Clinton. She can be expected to raise at least $1.5 billion between her campaign and allied outside groups. He is not liquid enough to match her through...
by Jeff Bryant | Mar 7, 2016 | Blog, Education
In 2013, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan tried to minimize the movement against standardized testing, saying it was confined to “white suburban moms.” Numerous state education officials across the country erected roadblocks to anyone trying to boycott the...
by Robert Borosage | Mar 7, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016, Progressive Vision
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders won three of four state contests over the weekend. On the Republican side, Ted Cruz emerged as the leading challenger to Donald Trump in what is quickly becoming a two-man race. And the seventh Democratic debate, in...
