Author: Isaiah Jerome Lewis Poole
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Budget Vote Outcome Doesn\’t End The Debate Over Our Economic Priorities
The battle over the principles and policies in the Progressive Caucus budget, contrasted against the federal budget proposal by Rep. Paul Ryan, will continue all the way through the November elections.
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Meet Some \’Smart Capitalists\’ Who Have Already Raised Their Minimum Wage
Three business owners say they know first-hand that raising federal the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour would be a win for business as well as a win for workers.
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Time To Tell Paul Ryan To Stop His April Foolishness
The latest proposal from the House Budget Committee chairman is less April Fool\’s joke and more cruel hoax. This budget – and more importantly, the values and priorities that it enshrines – must be challenged.
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Leo Hindery on Minimum Wage: \”I\’d Be Embarrassed\” To Be McDonald\’s CEO
Business leaders who call themselves Smart Capitalists were on Capitol Hill to lobby for legislation that would increase the minimum wage. For one of them, Leo Hindery, this is about ethics as well as economics.
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The Minimum Wage Fight Is A Fight For Women
Millions of women are the backbone of the services sector yet struggle to provide the basics for their families. Here\’s how they would benefit from a $10.10 minimum wage.
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Boehner, Your Opposition To Renewing Jobless Benefits Is \”Unworkable\”
A message to House Speaker John Boehner: Trying to support yourself and a budding teen-ager on virtually no income in a job market that is openly hostile to older workers? That\’s unworkable.
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$1 Billion In Tax Dollars To Miseducate Our Children
The right-wing push for private school vouchers is leading to taxpayer subsidies of education that can be more damaging to children and our society than any shortcomings of public schools. We need a movement to stop it.
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This Statistic Should Shut Down Any Talk Of Cutting Social Security
The latest survey from the Employee Benefit Research Institute points to the need to bolster Social Security benefits for those who will be beginning to claim benefits over the next three decades.
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On Jobs, Just Say \’No\’ To Normal
The Progressive Caucus \”Better Off Budget\” sets the bar higher than any other economic plan when it comes to job creation. But even that budget accepts limits to the economic policy debate that we should push beyond.
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Unemployment Insurance Deal Means The Fight Is On
If this deal passes the House and the Senate and signed into law by President Obama, this will be a big deal for people who have been out of work for more than 26 weeks. But that is a way-too-big \”if.\”