by Leo Gerard | Nov 17, 2015 | Blog, Jobs and Growth, Trade
Over the past several weeks, as Alcoa and Century cut aluminum production nationwide, James Markus, a 23-year-veteran aluminum worker, acutely felt the pain of those laid off. That's because just two years ago, in October of 2013, Markus and 750 fellow aluminum...
by Richard Eskow | Nov 17, 2015 | Blog, Financial Reform
The Glass-Steagall Act came up as a major point of disagreement between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton during Saturday's Democratic presidential debate. The act, which was originally enacted in 1933, separated risky trading and investment from traditional banking...
by Dave Johnson | Nov 16, 2015 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
Our government has contracted (as in privatized or outsourced) with a British-owned, anti-union company to operate the U.S. Senate cafeteria. The company pays so little that many employees are on public assistance; at least one was homeless. Meanwhile the company is...
by Bill Scher | Nov 16, 2015 | Blog, Democracy
Presidential candidate Marco Rubio has a big problem. As I previously detailed here, in 2013 Rubio tragicomically botched his attempt to lead on immigration reform, angering both pro- and anti-immigrant camps. For Republican primary voters who oppose citizenship for...
by Jeff Bryant | Nov 16, 2015 | Blog, Education
Although many Democrats are disappointed, even in a “panic,” with the results from recent off-year elections, they need to be aware of where progressives won and learn from communities that bucked the influences of big money, especially in contests where education was...
by Dave Johnson | Nov 16, 2015 | Blog, Election 2016, Progressive Vision
The Democratic candidates debated for the second time Saturday evening, in Des Moines, Iowa. Because of the terrible terrorist attacks in Paris and Beirut, the emphasis of the beginning of the debate focused on a discussion of terrorism, national security and foreign...
