by Jeff Bryant | Jun 4, 2014 | Blog, Education
In the education policy arena, the whole idea of "reform" has tended to be a pursuit from the top down – imposing standards and "accountability" from Washington, D.C. and state capitals and ramping up competitive providers with big money from private foundations and...
by Dave Johnson | Jun 4, 2014 | Blog, Trade
The Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Economic Analysis released the April trade figures this morning. The news is bad. The trade deficit measures how much more we buy from other countries than they buy from us. It is a way to measure loss of jobs, loss of factories,...
by Dave Johnson | Jun 4, 2014 | Blog, Health
Republicans in February filibustered a bill that would have given the Veterans Administration more resources to address delays at its health facilities. Then they whipped up one of their hysterical "scandals" over delays in care (that actually started under President...
by Richard Eskow | Jun 3, 2014 | Blog
Earlier today we had a wide-ranging conversation with Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio about the fight to expand Social Security and the social safety net. We began by discussing the bill Sen. Brown has co-sponsored , which would lift the payroll tax cap (which means...
by Leo Gerard | Jun 3, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce threw a little hissy fit last week, stomping its Gucci-shod feet over a new rule requiring corporations to report the difference in pay between their median workers and their CEOs. As usual, the navel-gazing Chamber got it all wrong. The...
by Bill Scher | Jun 3, 2014 | Blog, Climate
I've argued both here and at Real Clear Politics that the EPA climate regulations announced Monday, while critical to the planet, are politically treacherous for Democrats, especially this November when several Democrat-held Senate seats in coal and oil states are up...
