by Miles Mogulescu | Mar 10, 2020 | Blog, Economy, Featured, Health, International, Jobs and Growth
In the short time since the COVID-19 virus was discovered and made public in Wuhan, a city of 11 million in central China, this new strain of coronavirus - a family of pathogens that includes the common cold, as well as more deadly strains like SARS and MERS - has...
by Shailly Gupta Barnes, Lindsay Koshagarian | Mar 9, 2020 | Blog, Election, Featured
The 2020 presidential campaign is well underway, and it’s noisy. Candidates make promises, break promises, offer assurances, and spin the news constantly. What’s one way to get a clear look at their priorities? In the case of a sitting president, by looking at their...
by Joy Blackwood | Mar 6, 2020 | Blog, Democracy, Featured, Letter From DC, Policy
Photo credit: Dhilung Kirat / flickr / cc It’s March in Washington, D.C., which means the cherry blossoms will bloom any day now. Our nation’s capital would be teeming with visitors and excitement under normal circumstances. The mood here, however, is subdued. In...
by Steven Rosenfeld | Mar 5, 2020 | Blog, Election, Featured
Photo credit: Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk On the biggest day of the 2020 presidential season so far, Super Tuesday, America’s biggest new voting system—in Los Angeles County—widely frustrated voters and poll workers in its debut in a...
by Adiel Pollydore | Mar 4, 2020 | Blog, Featured
Right across the bay from my hometown in Oakland, California is San Francisco. Together, these two congressional districts will send fourteen pledged delegates in July to the Democratic National Convention in Milwaukee to choose our presidential nominee. Together with...
by Andrew Tripp | Mar 3, 2020 | Blog, Democracy, Election, Featured, Future of Work
Photo credit: Max Goldberg / Wikimedia Commons / cc One late summer evening in 2000, my home phone rang in Moretown, Vermont. “Can you please hold for Congressman Sanders?” the voice on the line asked. At the time, I had been doing what union organizers do when...
