by Richard Eskow | May 9, 2014 | Blog, Economy
Sixty years after the Supreme Court ruled in favor of school integration, a review by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) found that “Schools remain segregated today because neighborhoods in which they are located are segregated.” EPI’s Richard Rothstein found that...
by Isaiah J. Poole | May 8, 2014 | Blog, Winning Issues for 2014
Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn), the co-chairman of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, has a sharp warning for Democrats in an exclusive interview with Truthout.org: Focus less on fund-raising and more on people and their need for progressive, populist solutions to...
by Dave Johnson | May 8, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth, Minimum Wage
This week North Carolina's Tom Tillis won the state's primary to become the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate. Then he appeared on Chuck Todd's show on MSNBC and was asked about raising the federal minimum wage. Tillis replied with the standard Republican...
by Robert Borosage | May 8, 2014 | Blog, Health
Partisan politics can cost lives. Partisan passions blind petty politicians to the human costs of their actions. Today, 24 state legislators and governors have refused to expand Medicaid to cover poor working people in their state – even though the Federal government...
by Dave Johnson | May 8, 2014 | Blog, Tax Reform
A huge, huge giveaway of tax money to giant corporations is rolling down the tracks at us. If it happens, this tax giveaway would be second only to the bank bailouts on the list of schemes to give money to private corporations. (Except, with the bailouts we got some...
by Jasmine Tucker | May 7, 2014 | Blog, Tax Reform
From the perspective of the federal government, tax breaks are no different from any other kind of federal spending. Just like money we spend on programs such as early childhood education or food safety, when we approve tax breaks, it means less money in the U.S....
