by Jeff Bryant | Jan 28, 2016 | Blog, Education
It's that time of year when National School Choice Week is staged by – well, we really don't know who – to elevate "education options," primarily charter schools and vouchers, for K-12 students. This year's NSCW apparently includes a record number of events around the...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 28, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016, Progressive Vision
Given the importance of the African-American vote in the Democratic primary and the questions around whether Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders – a self-styled "Democratic socialist" in a state that is 1 percent black – can effectively compete for the...
by Terrance Heath | Jan 28, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
Conservatives are responding to Flint, Michigan’s water crisis with the same depraved indifference that helped contaminate the city’s water and expose thousands of children to lead poisoning. By now, the entire country has heard the tragic story. In 2013, Flint —...
by Bill Scher | Jan 28, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016, Progressive Vision
There are substantive differences between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton. Single-payer vs. individual mandate. Break up the big banks vs. regulate the big banks. Tuition-free college vs. debt-free college. "Leave it in the ground" vs. a more gradual shift away...
by Robert Reich | Jan 27, 2016 | Blog, Populist Majority, Progressive Vision
Not a day passes that I don’t get a call from the media asking me to compare Bernie Sanders’s and Hillary Clinton’s tax plans, or bank plans, or health-care plans. I don’t mind. I’ve been teaching public policy for much of the last thirty-five years. I’m a policy...
by Dave Johnson | Jan 27, 2016 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
Ford Motor Company announced this week that it will close all operations in Japan and Indonesia this year, because it sees "no reasonable path to profitability." Last year GM pulled out of Indonesia. What does it say that they are doing this with the Trans-Pacific...
