by Editors | Oct 23, 2014 | Blog, Economy, Gender Justice
An Associated Press-GfK poll published this week indicates that women are shifting to favor the Republican party. “Women have moved in the GOP’s direction since September,” the AP reported. Just a month ago, 47 percent of female likely voters favored a...
by Jeff Bryant | Oct 23, 2014 | Blog, Education
When evidence emerged a month ago that education is the top “turnout message” for the Democratic Party in the upcoming election, some candidates may have chosen to act on that information. Indeed, Democratic-leaning activists have stepped up their ground game to make...
by Jim Hightower | Oct 23, 2014 | Blog, Economy, Jobs and Growth, Minimum Wage
Gosh, time flies when it’s pushed along by a jet stream of greed. It seems like only yesterday that Wal-Mart announced, with much self-congratulatory fanfare, that the super-rich retailing colossus wasn’t a scrooge after all. Indeed, while the world’s largest purveyor...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 23, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth, Trade
Massachusetts is awarding a contract to build rail cars to CNR Changchun Railway Vehicles, a Chinese state-owned company, a subordinate of China CNR Corporation Ltd. The company will do final assembly of the cars in Massachusetts. "This is the preeminent manufacturer...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 23, 2014 | Blog, Health
The country has been subjected to weeks of ebola fear/terror/panic/propaganda going out over the airwaves – and from one network in particular -- just in time to drive fear into the election. Now a group has put together an election ad making the case that the country...
by Robert Borosage | Oct 23, 2014 | Blog, Progressive Vision
How should Democrats make their case on the economy? In the last days of the election, this isn’t a rhetorical question. For all the furor about Ebola, ISIS, Ferguson, the Secret Service, and Obama, the economy will remain the determining issue in this election. Two...
