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:...
by Terrance Heath | Apr 1, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism, Progressive Vision
The powerful grassroots backlash against Indiana’s anti-gay “religious freedom” law is yielding results and inspiring hope. Right-wing supporters of the law were seemingly caught unawares by a grassroots response that’s put them on the defensive. On Monday, the...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Mar 31, 2015 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
Leaders of the "fight for $15" movement has set April 15 as the date for a nationwide strike to push for a living wage for all low-wage workers. This movement that started with fast-food workers in 2012 is now expanding to include a whole range of occupations, ranging...
