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...
by Terrance Heath | Oct 22, 2014 | Blog, Democracy, Progressive Vision
With Election Day just two weeks away, the words of Paul Wellstone Citizen Leadership Award recipient and Moral Mondays movement leader Rev. William Barber remind us, "If we ever needed to vote, we sure do need to vote now!" His new book reminds us of the moral power...
