by Jeff Bryant | Apr 2, 2015 | Blog, Education
Does populist outrage matter anymore? Anyone following the growing resistance to unpopular standardized testing in the nation's public schools may soon see. Thousands of teachers, parents, students, and public school advocates poured into the streets of New York City...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 2, 2015 | Blog, Populism2015, Trade
Everyone gets that past "free" trade deals rigged the rules against working people. Now across the country a strong populist movement has gained momentum to stop more trade deals from making things worse. This is just one part of the populist movement that has grown...
by Bill Scher | Apr 2, 2015 | Blog, Climate
The United States made one of the first pledges to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Other countries will follow suit over the next few months, setting the stage for an international climate agreement in December, in which nations would pursue...
by Richard Eskow | Apr 2, 2015 | Blog, Education
Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Elijah Cummings, who co-chair an initiative called the Middle Class Prosperity Project, are holding a forum today at the University of Massachusetts in Boston on Tackling the Student Debt Crisis (more info here). If the word “crisis”...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 2, 2015 | Blog
The U.S. Census Bureau reported Thursday that the February goods and services trade deficit was "$35.4 billion in February, down $7.2 billion from $42.7 billion in January, revised." This enormous, humongous level of $35.5 billion drained from the economy in a single...
by Jeff Bryant | Apr 1, 2015 | Blog, Education
To the old saying about “death and taxes,” you can now add another: debt. In fact, in contemporary America, debt is likely becoming at least as all-encompassing as the other two. An increasingly powerful force behind the debt explosion is not what you might expect:...
