by Dave Johnson | Oct 10, 2014 | Blog, Progressive Vision
Politicians who make a case for regular people get regular people to come out out to vote for them. Unfortunately, very few are making a case for regular people, with the result that many regular people ask, "Why bother to vote?" There is an American populist revival...
by Emily Schwartz Greco | Oct 9, 2014 | Blog, Progressive Vision
Did you notice that all that fuss over those Central American kids who were crossing the U.S. border alone suddenly died down? As recently as June, more than 10,000 children fleeing unchecked gang violence in El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala made it here over the...
by Joshua Holland | Oct 9, 2014 | Blog
Washington greeted the latest jobs numbers with enthusiasm. In September, the unemployment rate fell below six percent for the first time since July, 2008. We’ve netted 2.64 million jobs over the past 12 months, and are on pace to add more jobs in 2014 than in any...
by Richard Eskow | Oct 9, 2014 | Blog, Progressive Vision
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio will receive the Progressive Champion Award at the Campaign for America's Future 2014 Awards Gala on Tuesday, October 14. See the awards gala page for information and tickets. Progressives who are elected to executive office have a...
by Bill Scher | Oct 8, 2014 | Blog
Nine years ago, textile CEO David Perdue probably didn't think he'd ever run for office. Which would explain why in a deposition he bluntly answered a question on outsourcing by saying, "Yeah, I spent most of my career doing that." But after it was uncovered last...
by Richard Eskow | Oct 8, 2014 | Blog, Financial Reform
A lawsuit currently being tried in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims argues that AIG shouldn’t have been treated any more harshly than Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, or any of the other institutions the government rescued. There’s merit to that argument. It goes on to...
