by KC Vick | May 16, 2019 | Blog, Criminal Justice, Featured, Gender Justice, Health, I Speak
Alabama Governor Kay Ivey just signed the most restrictive anti-abortion law in the country. Doctors now face up to 99 years in prison for offering to end pregnancies, with nearly no exceptions - including cases of incest and rape. Once again, the people of Alabama...
by Tim Wilkins | May 15, 2019 | Blog, Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Ryan Greenwood Change is Coming To A Presidential Forum Near You "Fighting back is not just about removing bad people from power, but electing leaders who share our values into public office," says Laural Clinton, from Des Moines, Iowa. "That’s why we...
by Ryan Greenwood | May 15, 2019 | Blog, Election, Featured, Politics
Evelynne Castillo is eighteen, the daughter of a undocumented immigrant in Mesa, Arizona. Laural Clinton is a widowed mother of three Black boys in Des Moines, Iowa. Brandy Staples lives in Maine, where she was diagnosed with Stage Four breast cancer at age...
by Tim Wilkins | May 14, 2019 | Blog
MORNING MESSAGE Sarah Anderson The Reality Behind the ‘Surging’ U.S. Economy Recent economic reports have President Donald Trump crowing, and the big headline numbers do sound encouraging. And yet most of the gains from our growing economy are still going to those who...
by Sarah Anderson | May 14, 2019 | #PeoplesWave, Blog, Economy, Featured
Recent economic reports have President Donald Trump crowing. The big headline numbers do sound encouraging. The unemployment rate is down to 3.6%, the lowest since 1969. Average earnings are finally outpacing inflation, the stock market has been hitting record highs,...
by Tim Wilkins | May 13, 2019 | Blog
MORNING MESSAGE Leo Gerard American Workers Are Not Happy Americans are not happy. And for good reason. They continue to suffer financial stress caused by decades of flat income. And every time they make the slightest peep of complaint about a system rigged against...
