by Isaiah J. Poole | Feb 5, 2014 | Progressive Vision
[fve]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbCcTeV2PUM&feature=youtu.be&t=30m[/fve] When Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., announced last week that he will be retiring from Congress, progressives lamented the loss of a great liberal champion, a product of the political ferment of...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 4, 2014 | Progressive Vision
This Saturday, Feb, 8, the North Carolina Moral Mondays movement is holding a major march in Raleigh, N.C. This is the beginning of a much larger national movement that you'll see across the country this year. [fve]http://youtu.be/GAbeTp44NTY[/fve] A news release...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 30, 2014 | Progressive Vision
President Obama today traveled to a General Electric engine manufacturing plant in Waukesha County, Wis., to promote his job training initiatives. One goal, of course, is to call attention to what the Obama administration is doing on what the public believes should be...
by Robert Borosage | Jan 29, 2014 | Economy, Progressive Vision, State of the Union
In a State of the Union address that lasted over an hour, President Obama called on Congress to raise the minimum wage, announced he would act immediately to issue an executive order lifting the lowest wages of government contract workers, and urged companies to join...
by Richard Eskow | Jan 28, 2014 | Progressive Vision
A banjo player dies at 94 and, for a moment, millions of graying Americans are young and idealistic again. Pete Seeger was a tall man, and he left a long shadow. He was born in 1919, in a nation that was born in 1776. That made him one-third as old as the United...
by Robert Borosage | Jan 28, 2014 | Progressive Vision, State of the Union
Guides to the president’s State of the Union address are a dime a dozen. The annual ritual has even spawned drinking games: a shot for every time the president gets a standing O from both parties if you want to stay sober, one for every partisan ovation if you want to...
