by Robert Borosage | Jan 8, 2016 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
Amid the clamorous tumult of global stock markets, the December Bureau of Labor Statistics jobs report offers reassuring stability – 292,000 new jobs with the headline unemployment rate steady at 5 percent. The U.S. has now enjoyed a record 70 months of private sector...
by Roger Hickey | Jan 8, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016, Progressive Vision
Since the Democratic National Committee seems to sponsor Democratic presidential debates only once in a blue moon, progressive activists in Iowa have organized their own presidential forum in Des Moines – "Putting Families First" – on Saturday. If you can make it to...
by Dave Johnson | Jan 7, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, Jobs and Growth, Progressive Vision
The Supreme Court has once again decided to reconsider "settled law." This time it is a case involving the rights of public-employee unions to charge employees a fee for the services the unions are required by law to provide to all employees – even those who are not...
by Jeff Bryant | Jan 7, 2016 | Blog, Education
In 2015 we witnessed historic changes in education. As education professor Sherman Dorn reviewed on his personal blog, there were at least 20 major news stories affecting the nation, including the passage of new federal legislation to replace No Child Left Behind, the...
by Bill Scher | Jan 7, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016, Progressive Vision
Republican operative Ed Rogers writes in The Washington Post that "Hillary Clinton is the most miscast character in the 2016 race" because "this is shaping up to be a change election, and nothing about a Clinton candidacy offers change." Rogers doesn't knock Clinton...
by Jim Hightower | Jan 6, 2016 | Blog, Progressive Vision, Trans-Pacific Partnership
They say that if you get up in the morning and swallow a live toad, nothing worse will happen to you for the rest of the day. Well, we Americans have just been fed a live toad by the World Trade Organization. Last May, the WTO — an oligarchic, autocratic governing...
