by Dave Johnson | Mar 15, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016, Progressive Vision
Here's what remains true after Tuesday's primary results: Sen. Bernie Sanders will arrive at the 2016 Democratic Convention in Philadelphia July 25-28 with a large support base, serious money, and the ability to ask for even more money for progressive groups. This is...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Mar 15, 2016 | Conservatism, People's Budget, Progressive Vision
The fiscal 2017 People's Budget was formally unveiled Tuesday by leaders of the Congressional Progressive Caucus on the same day that House Republicans released their own dystopian spending plan – and found that conservatives were criticizing it for not being austere...
by Robert Borosage | Mar 9, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016, Progressive Vision
Bernie Sanders shocked the political world with a stunning victory in the Michigan primary Tuesday night, coming back from 20 percent down in polling to win by some 2 percent of the vote. After all the weeks of commentary about Bernie Sanders' problem with black...
by Sam Pizzigati | Mar 8, 2016 | Blog, Economy, Progressive Vision
The deep pockets that make up America’s top 1 percent have been on quite a run. Their share of the nation’s wealth, as economist Gabriel Zucman details in a new Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality analysis, has soared from 25 percent in the 1970s to 42 percent...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 8, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016, Progressive Vision
In Sunday's Democratic presidential debate, just two days before Michigan's primary takes place, Hillary Clinton dropped a 'gotcha' bomb on Bernie Sanders, saying Sanders "was against the auto bailout." (Clinton is also running ads on Michigan radio making the same...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Mar 7, 2016 | Jobs and Growth, Progressive Vision
The conservative naysayers who predicted that New York City was going to fall into an economic abyss under the unapologetically progressive mayor Bill de Blasio are having to eat their words. The New York Times on Monday is the latest publication to find that New York...