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...
by Robert Borosage | Aug 28, 2015 | Blog, Progressive Vision
Donald Trump's “barstool eruptions” fill the news shows, but Trump seems tame compared to the economic headlines. The stock market craters and then bounces back. Growth for the second quarter is revised up to 3.7%, even as CBO revises its projection for this year down...
by Bernie Horn | Aug 28, 2015 | Blog, Progressive Vision
With the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives controlled by the right wing, it’s no wonder that this Congress has been among the least productive in our nation’s history. But while Congress treads water, some real progress has been made in states and...
by Jeff Bryant | Aug 27, 2015 | Blog, Education
The big annual poll on how Americans view public schools and education policy is out, and anyone eager to don the mantle of "education reform" might want to rethink their wardrobe. As education journalist Valerie Strauss reports the news from her blog at The...
by Terrance Heath | Aug 27, 2015 | Blog, Economy
When President Obama visits New Orleans today to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, he will find the city whiter, wealthier, and more unequal than it was before the storm. Eight years ago, then senator and presidential candidate Barack Obama...
