by Jeff Bryant | May 13, 2014 | Blog, Education
So this one's personal for me. The day they bused the poor kids to my school was the first time I'd ever come face to face with children my age who were so poor they weren't properly clothed. It was the first time – in a society where I saw separate water fountains...
by Dave Johnson | May 13, 2014 | Blog, Populist Majority, The New Populism
There is a new populist movement that is driving minimum wage and other reforms across the country. The public wants the minimum wage increased, and cities and states are acting on their own to bypass D.C. and get this moving. Does It Matter What The Public Wants?...
by Dave Johnson | May 12, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth, Winning Issues for 2014
The country needs jobs. The country needs to start fixing up its crumbling infrastructure. The country doesn't need more corporate tax breaks. Guess which of these three is in legislation the House is passing – unfortunately with help from many Democrats. If this...
by Terrance Heath | May 9, 2014 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
Hillary Clinton's all-but-inevitable presidential candidacy in 2016 and Monica Lewinsky's return to the spotlight have led to recurrence of the right's derangement disorder of the '90s. Monica Lewinsky, whose name became a verb in the late 1990s, broke her silence on...
by Bill Scher | May 9, 2014 | Blog
When the State Department delayed its decision on the Keystone pipeline because the specific route is tied up in the Nebraska courts, pipeline supporters accused President Obama of playing politics, avoiding a polarizing decision before the midterm elections. When the...
by Sam Pizzigati | May 9, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
We may now be living in the golden age of executive-pay journalism. Nearly every day seems to bring still another story exposing the sheer lunacy of contemporary CEO compensation. In the last week alone we’ve learned that “pay for performance” has raised CEO earnings...
