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...
by Dave Johnson | Jan 6, 2016 | Blog, Trade
The U.S. Census Bureau reported Wednesday that the November goods and services trade deficit was an enormous, humongous $42.4 billion. This is for just one month, not an entire year. This is down $2.2 billion – 5 percent – from October’s enormous, humongous $44.6...
by Dave Johnson | Jan 6, 2016 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
Everyone understands that our (and the world's) economy is underperforming. While U.S. unemployment is down, people are finding jobs that underpay and/or don't provide enough hours. Regular people just don't have enough to get by – never mind enough to drive consumer...
by Larry Cohen | Jan 6, 2016 | Blog, Financial Reform
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders’ major policy speech at Town Hall in New York City on Tuesday – in which he declared that he will “break up any banks that are too big to fail and that big bankers will not be too big to jail” – felt a lot like the last...
