by Dave Johnson | Dec 2, 2014 | Blog, Democracy
The 2015 Martin Luther King Jr. Civil and Human Rights Conference will be held Jan. 15–19 in Atlanta at the Westin Peachtree Plaza. The event is hosted by the AFL-CIO’s Civil, Human and Women’s Rights Department. Through plenaries, workshops and panels, attendees will...
by Sam Pizzigati | Dec 2, 2014 | Blog, Economy
We don’t know who exactly filed the tax returns with America’s 400 largest incomes in 2010. The IRS won’t reveal any of these 400 individually by name. But a just-released new IRS annual report on America’s highest incomes has revealed just about everything else about...
by Dave Johnson | Dec 1, 2014 | Blog
For six years, Republicans in Washington have blocked almost every effort to improve conditions and wages for working people. Around the country, cities and states are no longer waiting for Washington to act, and are taking things into their own hands. They have...
by Bill Moyers | Dec 1, 2014 | Blog, Economy
From "Moyers and Company," November 28, 2014 Let’s talk one more time about why inequality matters. Some people say it doesn’t, but they’re living in an ideological fairyland on the far side of the looking glass. In the real world, inequality is a deep and divisive...
by Dave Johnson | Nov 30, 2014 | Blog, Populist Majority
Many Democrats examining what happened in the 2014 midterms are asking "what did the voters want?" But the right question is why did only 36.4 percent of potential voters bother to register and vote? Obviously Democrats did not give those voters a good enough reason...
by Robert Borosage | Nov 27, 2014 | Blog
As our family gathers this Thanksgiving, I am struck by the poetry and truth in the president’s words in the speech announcing his immigration initiative: “We know the heart of the stranger. We were strangers once, too.” For my family, it began in 1906 when my...
