by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 16, 2015 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
A White House announcement today made it clear that progressives will be on their own in the battle to boost public investment in our public assets. The White House today announced the creation of an infrastructure bonds program designed to attract private financing...
by Dave Johnson | Jan 16, 2015 | Blog
We all know how NAFTA turned out for us (for most of us, anyway). We all know how opening up trade with China turned out. It's right in front of our faces. Who hasn't seen the boarded-up downtowns of closed-down "factory towns?" Who hasn't felt the fear of...
by Jeff Bryant | Jan 16, 2015 | Blog, Education
Here's how ridiculous the nation's obsession with standardized testing has gotten: Last week Education Week reporter Catherine Gewertz came across a news item about a school in Florida that "forbid the flushing of toilets during testing … to cut down on the...
by Richard Eskow | Jan 16, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism
It's tough to be disabled in America. It's tough anywhere, of course. But, as Rebecca Vallas notes: "According to the OECD, the U.S. disability benefit system is the most restrictive and least generous of all member countries, except for Korea." And nowhere else in...
by Terrance Heath | Jan 16, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism
Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.) is the new chair of the House Budget Committee. Just who is Rep. Tom Price? What will his conservative economic ideology cost us? Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) was arguably the most famous, and perhaps most-photographed, House Budget Committee chair...
by Emily Schwartz Greco | Jan 15, 2015 | Blog, Climate
When Maria van der Hoeven summed up the 20-year outlook for global energy investment in London last year, she identified a couple of daunting challenges. The amount of money required by 2035 is a staggering $48 trillion, the International Energy Agency chief and...
