Author: Isaiah Jerome Lewis Poole
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Low-Income School Districts Need More, But Many Are Starved Instead
Fairness in school funding is \”the sleeper civil rights issue of our time.\” But it\’s clear from a new report by the Education Law Center that this issue comes with a loud alarm.
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A Warning to U.S. About Right-Wing Policies Harming the Greek Economy
What\’s the lesson that we need to learn from the Greek debt crisis? Unless you want U.S. streets overrun with motorcycles, we need to invest in our economy and oppose right-wing austerity policies here in America.
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As a Bridge Crumbles, Congress Fumbles
A Congress gridlocked by conservative ideologues hit the equivalent of the snooze button on a surface transportation bill that would provide federal funding for the nation\’s bridges, roads and public transportation.
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Gallup Poll Finds Liberalism Ascendent, Conservatism In Decline
On economic issues, the gap between conservatives and liberals is lower today than at any point since 1999, Gallup finds. More striking is the change in ideological identification on social issues.
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Postal Banking Idea Wins Support From Postal Service Inspector General
An Inspector General\’s report outlines how post officies could provide essential services to some 68 million Americans who don\’t have a bank account or depend on check-cashing and payday lending outfits.
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Unprecedented Coalition Leads To Progressive Wins In Philadelphia
Progressive mayoral candidate Jim Kenney and City Council candidate Helen Gym prepare to join the ranks of city leaders in the vanguard of progressive change in the cities.
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The Infrastructure Spending-\’Good Jobs\’ Connection Is Under Attack
There is an intensifying fight over whether the jobs that our infrastructure spending creates should be \”good jobs\” with living wages and benefits or low-road jobs with declining wages.
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No, Boehner, Amtrak Funding-Derailment Link Is Not A Stupid Question
House Speaker John Boehner\’s protestation misses the larger point about the historic failure to invest properly in our passenger rail system, which affects Amtrak\’s ability to deploy safety systems quickly.
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The Price We Pay For Conservative Scorn Of Amtrak
An Amtrak train derails on its way through Philadelphia. A House appropriations subcommittee votes to cut federal funding for Amtrak by about 20 percent. Two dots conservatives don\’t want you to connect.
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Progressives Unveil Complementary Agendas To Address Inequality
At a site near the White House and at the Capitol, progressive leaders pressed agendas designed to end the era of extreme wealth concentration and replace it with economic growth built on shared prosperity.