by Sam Pizzigati | Mar 27, 2015 | Blog, Economy, Health
Peasants with pitchforks don’t normally wear lab coats and hold medical degrees. Hagop Kantarjian does. Kantarjian currently chairs the leukemia department at the prestigious M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, one of America’s top oncology facilities. But the...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 27, 2015 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
A key section of the secret Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement has been leaked to the public. The New York Times has a major story on the contents of the leaked chapter and it's as bad as many of us feared. Now we know why the corporations and the Obama...
by Terrance Heath | Mar 26, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism, Jobs and Growth
Yesterday House Republicans passed a budget with no new funding for job creation. Today a new report on black unemployment shows the urgent need for investment in job creation. In a new report from the Economic Policy Institute, “Projected Decline in Unemployment in...
by Jeff Bryant | Mar 26, 2015 | Blog, Education
It's been nearly two years since the Education Opportunity Network, with the Opportunity to Learn campaign and the Campaign for America's Future, published the Education Declaration to Rebuild America. As The Washington Post reported at the time, "The document offers...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 25, 2015 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
Former Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick will head an advisory board for the Astroturf group called the Progressive Coalition for American Jobs. This group was formed to push for passage of fast track trade authority and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Also...
by Jeff Bryant | Mar 25, 2015 | Blog, Education
Be afraid, be very afraid, any time you see a reporter in the business media turn his or her attention to education and public schools. What will likely follow is a string of truisms used to prop up a specious argument, steeped in biased notions that were themselves...
