"Words that make actions speak louder."
Black unemployment continues to be a crisis that does not get the attention that it deserves. The candidate who best addresses this crisis would be the person most deserving to win the African-American vote.
Neither Marco Rubio nor any of the other Republican presidential candidates who support policies like a balanced budget amendment have a firm grasp of Economics 101.
On its seventh anniversary, imagine the apocalyptic economic and political landscape that we would see without the Recovery Act to ignite a virtuous cycle of government investment that put people to work.
A look at state unemployment statistics raises a question: Why is it that states that are under total Republican control have generally not shown any significant progress in narrowing the racial unemployment gap?
During a webinar by the Public Leadership Institute, Robert Borosage talks about Bernie Sanders’ victory in the New Hampshire primary and the political road ahead for the progressive movement in 2016.
Her most declarative statement to date on the issue of where she would stand on various proposals to “reform” Social Security and ensure its long-term solvency comes in the context of a disconcerting history.
The biggest mistake policymakers in Washington – from the White House to the Congress to the Federal Reserve – could make right now is to assume that what we’re seeing right now resembles actual “full employment.”
The latest wave of people being cut from the federal food assistance program is the latest chapter in a misguided ideological campaign to “end welfare as we know it.”
Tuesday’s CNN town hall debate missed an opportunity to clarify where Clinton stands on expanding Social Security. Now a petition drive seeks to build political momentum for legislation to improve Social Security benefits.
In the interview Sanders fields questions about the Black Lives Matters protests at his early campaign events and the fact that some blacks feel taken for granted by the Democratic party.