by Jeff Bryant | May 29, 2014 | Blog, Education
Michelle Obama is very upset. According to reports from CNN, the First Lady finds it's "unacceptable" that Republicans lawmakers in the House are pushing to allow schools to opt out of nutrition regulations that were part of a 2010 law that established new...
by Isaiah J. Poole | May 29, 2014 | Blog, Populist Majority, The New Populism
Here's how to get in less than 20 minutes all that we've been saying about what the populist majority supports and the winning political message that will get them to the polls: Watch pollster Celinda Lake's presentation at The New Populism Conference last week. Her...
by Dave Johnson | May 28, 2014 | Blog
A recent AP "big story" tries to explain why CEO pay soaring and everyone else's is stagnant or falling. It says more than it intends about the state of our economy and our governing system. AP's "The CEO Got A Huge Raise. You Didn't. Here's Why," by Josh Boak boils...
by Robert Borosage | May 28, 2014 | Blog, The New Populism
A powerful new populist challenge is emerging from the reality of an economy that is not working for working people. It is expressed not by the Koch-funded, rabidly anti-government Tea Party, but by the new populists, inside and outside the Democratic Party. Sen....
by Dave Johnson | May 27, 2014 | Blog, Populist Majority
At last week's New Populism conference, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) talked about how the multinational corporations rig the game against working people. "Why are trade deals secret? ... because if the American people knew what was going on, they would be opposed."...
by Bill Scher | May 27, 2014 | Blog, Climate
During MSNBC's "Up With Steve Kornacki" on Sunday, I was asked if Tom Steyer's $100 million campaign to defeat Republican climate science deniers in 2014 would make the climate issue less brutal for Democrats. My short answer: no. Because on Monday, it's a whole new...
