Author: Isaiah Jerome Lewis Poole
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Private Equity Predators Killed Jobs; Now They\’re After Your Retirement
Why do private equity companies want to tap 401(k) accounts? Economist Eileen Appelbaum of the Center for Economic and Policy Research explains what\’s behind this recent development.
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Corporations Paying More To Their CEOs Than They Do In Federal Taxes
It pays to remember the work Congress is not doing to ensure corporations pay their fair share of taxes. Some of the consequences are laid out in a report on CEO compensation and corporate taxes released today.
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Zephyr Teachout Argues For More Progressive Primary Challenges
There is a demand in the electorate for candidates who are advancing populist themes, said the woman who challenged New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo from the left earlier this year.
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The Opportunity To Reawaken The Progressive Majority
The 2014 election results reveal a failure of Democrats to speak to the progressive populism latent in the American electorate. But there is one sign that this mistake won\’t be repeated in the next election cycle.
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Jobs Report: Under The Sunny Headline, Deep Roots Of Discontent
Job growth prompts optimistic headlines, but remains well under the rate of growth we really need to make workers whole after the damage done by the 2008 recession.
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New Insight Into A Democratic Populist Path To Victory
Stan Greenberg still sees a way for Democrats to have a good outcome Tuesday – and it\’s through the party\’s base in the \”rising American electorate.\” But to get there, Dems will have to pivot to a more populist message.
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Failures of Conservatism Weighing Down Seven Republican Governors
Voters are rendering a harsh judgement against seven Republican governors running for re-election because the economic prosperity that was supposed to follow their trickle-down economic policies is only a trickle.
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Wealth Inequality And Middle-Class Decline Is Worse That We Think
Economist Emmanuel Saez\’s latest paper says that the share of wealth going to the bottom 90 percent has fallen to where it was in the 1940s, while the top tenth of 1 percent have levels of wealth last seen in the 1920s.
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Walmart Workers Stage K Street Protest, And Walmart Needs To Listen
Walmart is reaping the fruits of its leadership in the low-wage economy. It would do better if it did right by its workers, some of whom went to its family foundation office in D.C. to demand full-time work and a $15 wage.
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Pelosi Is Right: We Shouldn\’t Have To Wait For A Minimum Wage Increase
It\’s probably unrealistic to expect that Congress would drop its campaigning and come back to Washington to vote on a minimum wage increase. But unrealistic is not the same as unreasonable.