Let’s Make Sure Our Tax Dollars Buy Good Manufacturing Jobs
A new report presents a challenge to make better use of government procurement to boost U.S. manufacturing and to create good jobs. Economist Robert Pollin explains in this video.
Author: Isaiah J. Poole
What Clinton Gets Right, And Wrong, About Wall Street Reform
In a New York Times op-ed, Hillary Clinton points in the right direction and says much that needs to be said. Still, the progressives she is clearly trying to win over still need to press for bolder reforms.
We Must Keep Fighting For More and Better Infrastructure Investment
President Obama’s signature on a $305 billion surface transportation bill should not take this issue – and the broader infrastructure needs we have beyond transportation – off the 2016 election agenda.
Not-So-Fun Facts About Income Inequality
The latest Institute for Policy Studies report on the Forbes 400 and the rest of us underscores why we urgently need “policies that directly address the top-heavy distribution of wealth.”
One Woman’s $400,000 Student Debt And What We Should Do About It
A Thanksgiving weekend story is framed as a story of “how the federal government has become the biggest, nicest and meanest student lender in the world.” It actually makes the case for debt-free college and debt forgiveness.
Here’s One Way To Salvage Congress’ Poor Transportation Jobs Bill
The six-year surface transportation bill Congress is now hammering out contains both inadequate funding and bad policy. But there is an opportunity to boost a popular program that was a key tool in the 2009 stimulus.
A Progressive Majority Waiting To Be Convinced Government Can Work
A Pew Research Center survey released Monday is not surprising to those who have followed our Populist Majority polling monitoring project. It shows support for a progressive government, but distrust that it can work.
Welfare Reform’s Broken Promises Exposed Again
One of the remarkably few efforts to examine how welfare recipients actually fare once they get back into the workforce uncovers the inconvenient truth behind right-wing rhetoric about aid to low-income people.
How A Supreme Court Case Puts Equality in the Workplace At Stake
An adverse ruling in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association “would undermine one of the most successful vehicles” for providing equal opportunity for American workers, rights organizations tell the Supreme Court.
The Crisis In White America the GOP Did Not Debate – But Democrats Must
Studies like the one done by two Princeton University professors on increasing mortality rates among whites are precisely why progressives need to unapologetically press the case for bold economic reforms.