by Bernie Horn | Sep 1, 2015 | Blog, Education
A few states have now released results from the Common Core standardized tests administered to students last spring. The Associated Press recently published a story about them, and over the next couple of months we can expect a flood of press releases, news articles...
by Sam Pizzigati | Sep 1, 2015 | Blog, Economy
White House hopeful Bernie Sanders has been doing his best lately to place America’s “billionaire class” right at the center of the nation’s political discourse. But Phoenix-based attorney Bob Lord would like to see the nation start contemplating the next chapter in...
by Leo Gerard | Sep 1, 2015 | Blog, Jobs and Growth, Progressive Vision
Specialty metals manufacturer ATI reinvented itself in recent years. Instead of serving as a vital organ in the dozen communities where it operates mills, it decided to be a boil, blight – a bane upon civic life in six states. Communities once cherished their ATI...
by Terrance Heath | Sep 1, 2015 | Blog, Election 2016, Populist Majority, The New Populism
Whether you believe Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is an “electable” presidential candidate, the populist agenda Sanders has placed at the center of his campaign is absolutely an electable agenda. Once considered the longest of long-shot candidates, Sanders — the only...
by Jeff Bryant | Aug 31, 2015 | Blog, Education, Health
I don’t think anyone who read “Savage Inequalities: Children in America’s Schools” by Jonathan Kozol would easily forget it. It took me, a child of the leafy suburbs of affluent North Dallas, to a place that was unimaginably cruel and dehumanizing, where schools go...
by Dave Johnson | Aug 31, 2015 | Blog, Election 2016, Progressive Vision
When Sen. Bernie Sanders initially began running for president, his hope was to "trigger the conversation" about the way the economic and political system is rigged by the billionaires and their corporations. He wanted to begin a movement around a vision of how the...
