by Jeff Bryant | Mar 19, 2012 | Blog, Education
Last week in Florida there was an important victory for progressive Democrats that not many Democrats know about. Even worse, most Democrats may not even be aware why this was a victory. The important win was generated by a coalition of parent groups, schoolteachers,...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 19, 2012 | Blog, Making it in America, Minimum Wage
“There was clearly something wrong with the U.S. economy long before the crash.” Consensus Consensus. Again and again, people who examine what went wrong with our economy leading up to the great recession come to the same conclusions! Study after study, book after...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 18, 2012 | Blog, Reagan Revolution
(This post was originally published June 16, 2010) It seems that you can look at a chart of almost anything and right around 1981 or soon after you'll see the chart make a sharp change in direction, and probably not in a good way. And I really do mean almost anything,...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Mar 18, 2012 | Blog, Reagan Revolution
There's another chapter to add to the narrative my colleague Dave Johnson sketched out some weeks ago about how the Reagan revolution has come home to roost, based on sobering statistics uncovered this morning by David Cay Johnston at Tax.com about how The Great...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 18, 2012 | Blog
The Chamber of Commerce and the AFL-CIO promised a big infrastructure push. The AFL-CIO pushed, the Chamber backed off. Democrats and President Obama should embrace a big investment in jobs – and challenge the Republicans to support it. The American Majority wants it....
