by Steven Rosenfeld | Feb 21, 2020 | Blog, Election, Featured
As early voting began in Nevada’s 2020 Democratic presidential caucus, thousands of people had to wait for two hours or more before voting. The bottleneck was due to a shortage of pre-programmed iPads that the Nevada State Democratic Party gave volunteers to check in...
by Jeff Bryant | Feb 20, 2020 | Blog, Education, Featured, Future of Work
Photo credit: Virginia Department of Education / flickr / cc In the expanding effort to privatize the nation’s public education system, an ominous, less-understood strain of the movement is the corporate influence in Career and Technical Education (CTE) that is...
by Steven Rosenfeld | Feb 19, 2020 | Blog, Election, Featured
As Nevada prepares for 2020 Democratic Party presidential caucuses after four days of early voting, the big question is will there be breakdowns in the reporting and counting of votes that echo Iowa’s chaotic 2020 caucus earlier this month. That question is not...
by Rev. Kenneth Glasgow | Feb 17, 2020 | Criminal Justice, Election, Featured
I visited Birmingham County Jail this week to deliver a simple message: you are free to vote, even if you don’t know it. And now is the time for you to claim and exercise this right. I was joined by allies from the League of Women Voters, the NAACP, prominent...
by Tom Conway | Feb 14, 2020 | Blog, Featured, Future of Work
Glen Heck spent 28 years sweating in a Campti, La., paper mill that he likes to say was “hotter than nine kinds of hell.” But now, Heck’s sacrifice may have been for nothing because his multiemployer pension plan is one of about 150 nationwide set to go broke. If that...
by Steven Rosenfeld | Feb 13, 2020 | Blog, Democracy, Election, Featured
In 2016, New Hampshire Gov. Maggie Hassan, a Democrat, was elected to the U.S. Senate by a 1,017-vote margin. Even though both parties spent millions on the campaign, the key to Hassan’s victory was thousands of college and university students who registered to vote...
