by Isaiah J. Poole | May 21, 2015 | Blog, Economy, Financial Reform
If you think allowing post offices to morph into neighborhood banking centers is at best a utopian fantasy, or a just plain crazy idea, the Postal Service Inspector General wants you to think again. The inspector general's office released a report today concluding...
by Dave Johnson | May 21, 2015 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
Fast track is being super-fast tracked in the Senate. Wall Street and the big corporations really, really want this one and the Senate is responding, including 13 "Democrats." When the fix is in and you are rigging the game anyway, why bother with the pretense of...
by Jeff Bryant | May 21, 2015 | Blog, Education
The disturbing death of Freddie Gray in Baltimore while in police custody, and the ensuing riots after news of his death spread, have continued to prompt countless analyses of the chronic problems in our nation’s urban centers. My colleague Terrance Heath correctly...
by Terrance Heath | May 20, 2015 | Blog, Jobs and Growth, Progressive Vision
In the largest protest of its kind, thousands of McDonald’s employees stormed the company’s headquarters today to demand that it stop spending millions manipulating stock prices, and start paying workers a living wage. McDonald’s cashiers and cooks came to the...
by Dave Johnson | May 20, 2015 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
On a Wednesday press call Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown complained that the Senate leadership is "rushing" through a vote on "fast track" trade promotion authority – a procedure that in essence preapproves trade deals before the public can know what is in them. He said they...
by Robert Borosage | May 20, 2015 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.” – Frederick Douglass Yesterday, the Los Angeles City Council voted to raise the minimum wage of workers in America’s second largest city to $15 an hour. The minimum will rise in increments,...
