by Martha Burk | Feb 13, 2014 | Economy, Progressive Vision, The Jobs Challenge
When President Barack Obama talked about pay equity in his State of the Union speech last month and connected the dots between gender and low-wage work, advocates in the audience were ecstatic. Representative Rosa DeLauro, lead sponsor of the Paycheck Fairness Act...
by Leo Gerard | Feb 11, 2014 | Conservatism, Economy, Progressive Vision
The GOP is all about freedom – for corporations, that is. Republicans believe, for example, that business should be free from the kind of government regulation that would prevent chemical companies from spewing poison into West Virginia drinking water. When it comes...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Feb 10, 2014 | Democracy, Progressive Vision
[fve]http://youtu.be/entactmHPEY[/fve] The scene was Raleigh, N.C., but for many of the people who were there the message and its impact was intended to be national: There is a growing populist resistance to the conservative extremist agenda, and the tens of thousands...
by Roger Hickey | Feb 10, 2014 | Democracy, Progressive Vision
I was honored to be part of a historic and joyful event on Saturday, February 8, as an estimated 75,000 to 100,000 North Carolinians streamed into their capital city to from all over their state to participate in a historic Moral March on Raleigh. As they were filling...
by Joshua Holland | Feb 6, 2014 | Conservatism, Health, Progressive Vision
On Tuesday, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a new report on Obamacare’s impact on the economy that ignited an enormous amount of controversy. The firestorm centered on CBO’s projection that the Affordable Care Act would reduce the hours we work by the...
by Robert Borosage | Feb 5, 2014 | Economy, Progressive Vision, The Jobs Challenge, The New Populism
One day after President Barack Obama called for moving forward on trade authority in his State of the Union address, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) declared, “I am against fast track,” and said he had no intention of bringing it to a vote in the Senate....
