by People's Action | Aug 30, 2018 | Blog, Breakfast
Victory is sweet, but celebration brief - for our struggle has only just begun. The progressive populist insurgency in the Democratic Party has tasted frequent victories this primary season: Tuesday featured more stunning upsets, highlighted by Andrew Gillum’s late...
by Alejandra Gomez | Aug 29, 2018 | Blog, Democracy, Election, Politics
Arizonans are standing up to say once and for all, ¡YA BASTA! It’s time we have the elected leaders we deserve, who will courageously fight for us at all levels of government. Tuesday’s primary victories are clear evidence that when we fight, we win. It’s been a long...
by Jasmine Budnella | Aug 28, 2018 | Blog
Our country’s overdose crisis kills more people every day than gun violence, suicides, and traffic accidents. Even more shocking is that these lives could be saved – yet we fail to act. Our government’s failure to save lives, when it knows how, is the greatest...
by Miles Mogulescu | Aug 27, 2018 | Blog
If the Republican-controlled Senate proceeds with hearings scheduled Sept. 4 to confirm Trump’s appointment of Brett Kavanaugh to a lifetime seat on the Supreme Court, it will delegitimize the Supreme Court as an independent branch of government, and lead the nation...
by Sam Pizzigati | Aug 24, 2018 | Blog
Back in 1999, near the dizzying height of the dot-com boom, no executive in Corporate America personified the soaring pay packages of America’s CEOs more than Jack Welch, the chief exec at General Electric. Welch took home $75 million that year. What explained the...
by Jeff Bryant | Aug 23, 2018 | Blog
For nearly three decades, education politics have been dominated by a conflict over inputs versus outcomes. Some say public schools and teachers need support and resources to adequately educate all students. Others argue measures of achievement and efficiency prove...
