by Jeff Bryant | Apr 19, 2012 | Blog, Education
For-profit colleges and universities have a well-deserved reputation for deceptive recruiting, low-quality programs, and sky-high prices. Now you can add union suppression to that reputation. A branch of the for-profit college mega-provider Kaplan University has...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Apr 18, 2012 | Blog, Financial Reform
House Republicans can call their budget a "Path to Prosperity" all they want, but as far as the American Majority is concerned, it's a path to political defeat for the politicians who support it—if progressives make the right arguments in favor of an alternative that...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 18, 2012 | Blog
President Obama and many Democrats spent much of 2011 talking about deficits instead of doing something about jobs. Now, a too-close election is on the horizon (too-close because of spending 2011 talking about deficits instead of doing something about jobs) and we're...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 18, 2012 | Blog, Minimum Wage
AT&T looks to be shooting for a double-bad award right now. They're backing the hyper-partisan ALEC, and they're trying to get their workers to take cuts while they shower cash on a few at the top. More and more, people are reacting to these kinds of attacks on We,...
by Farbod Kadkhoda | Apr 18, 2012 | Blog
Today, as millions of Americans have coalesced to demand the wealthy to pay their fair share of taxes, one crusader, pledge in hand, stands in the way: Grover Norquist. In honor of tax day, protesters met in front of the offices of the Norquist-founded Americans for...