by Robert Borosage | Apr 17, 2015 | Blog, Populism2015, Populist Majority, Progressive Vision
Hillary Clinton indicates she favors a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizen’s United, the Supreme Court decision that opened the floodgates to corporate money in politics. She joins President Obama in calling for an end to the hedge fund billionaire tax break,...
by Jim Hightower | Apr 16, 2015 | Blog, Current Issues, Trans-Pacific Partnership
Come one, come all. Step right up and buy your ticket for a ride on the splendiferous, phantasmagoric, and miraculous Trans-Pacific Partnership! The TPP isn’t some sort of futuristic flying machine. It’s just another global trade scam coming at us like a volcanic...
by Elizabeth Warren | Apr 16, 2015 | Blog, Economy, Financial Reform
[fve]https://youtu.be/HSpfGodTrtk[fve] Remarks at the Levy Institute’s 24th Annual Hyman P. Minsky Conference As Prepared for Delivery Thank you all for being here today. We’re here to ask a critical question at a critical time: what are we to make of Dodd-Frank five...
by Bill Scher | Apr 16, 2015 | Blog
Over at Politico Magazine, I argued that the real Democratic race is "not about whether Hillary will win. Rather, it’s who will win Hillary." In other words, who will exert the most influence over her platform: Establishment wonks like Larry Summers, who led the...
by Terrance Heath | Apr 15, 2015 | Blog, Current Issues, Jobs and Growth
On a day when millions of Americans render a portion of their earnings to the federal government, thousands of low-wage workers, adjunct professors, some elected officials, and at least one CEO are standing up for an $15 dollar minimum wage — a livable wage for...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 15, 2015 | Blog
The World Trade Organization ruled this week that the United States is not being fair to Mexican seafood companies by denying "dolphin safe" labels on their tuna, meaning that American citizens won't know whether they are buying tuna that is caught in a way that we...
