by Jeff Bryant | Feb 4, 2016 | Blog, Education
The big news about education policy in the presidential race is that there is no news. As Laura Moser writes for Slate, “None of the candidates are talking about education. Like, at all.” At Salon, parent and public school activist Bertis Downs argues that even the...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 4, 2016 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
Our government has been on a privatization binge for some time. Things that We the People used to just do federally or through state and local governments were closed down and private corporations were hired to do those things instead. This "saved money" because the...
by Bill Scher | Feb 4, 2016 | Blog
[fve]https://youtu.be/WIR9GZlmj7A[/fve] Today, Marco Rubio surrogate Rick Santorum was stumped when asked by MSNBC's Joe Scarborough to name one Rubio accomplishment. Santorum pleaded that Rubio's short time in the Senate was a period when "nothing got done" so of...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 4, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
[fve]https://youtu.be/LhD5OOVI8qQ[/fve] As the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) "free-trade" agreement was signed in New Zealand by representatives of the 12 participating countries, Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders strongly voiced his opposition and...
by Sara Robinson | Feb 3, 2016 | Blog, Progressive Vision
In January 2011, I presented a futures research project to the Progressive Caucus in Congress, then the largest of all the caucuses in that body. The report, Progressives 2040 — which was sponsored by ProgressiveCongress.org and published by Demos — analyzed a large...
by Bill Scher | Feb 3, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016
Congratulations Iowa Republicans, you did it! You didn't pick the biggest joke of the election season. As in past caucuses, you still picked an extreme conservative with no chance of becoming president. But you didn't make your party into a complete laughingstock....
