by Dave Johnson | Sep 15, 2015 | Blog, Progressive Vision, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
Should the U.S. enter into special trade relationships with countries that violate basic principles of human dignity? Will our country prioritize people, human rights, and morality — or corporate profits? Pride@Work hopes our country will prioritize human rights in...
by Leo Gerard | Sep 15, 2015 | Blog, Economy, Jobs and Growth
Jeff Smisek, the guy forced by scandal to resign last week as CEO of the world’s fourth-largest airline, is a major reason American workers can’t get a raise. Smisek and his overpaid boardroom buddies nationwide have swindled American workers and American communities...
by Robert Borosage | Sep 15, 2015 | Blog, Progressive Vision
Jeremy Corbyn, a sexagenarian socialist and vegetarian teetotaler, and for 32 years a prickly, independent backbencher in the British parliament, has been elected in a landslide to lead the British Labour Party. The victory of the “British Bernie Sanders” raises the...
by Jeff Bryant | Sep 14, 2015 | Blog, Education
"We're making decisions just based on the money.” That’s Rosemarie Jensen talking, a tone of exasperation creeping into her voice as she describes the influence of money on education policy in South Florida. “Some things should be run like a business," she tells me in...
by Bill Scher | Sep 14, 2015 | Blog, Climate
Two years ago, Australia delivered a warning to American climate activists, when voters threw out the ruling Labor Party and installed right-wing Liberal Party leader Tony Abbott, who pledged to repeal Labor's carbon tax. It was a reminder how treacherous energy...
by Roger Hickey | Sep 13, 2015 | Blog, Education
MaryGreenSwig Steven L.Swig RogerHickey The student debt many Americans took on in their youth is following them to the grave. Now many of these student debtors are seniors whose Social Security benefits are being garnished to continue to pay those loans they took out...
