Author: Isaiah Jerome Lewis Poole
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Honoring Marge Tabankin: A Lifetime Fueling the Progressive Movement
This lifelong organizer and supporter of progressive causes will get a \”thank you\” for work spanning five decades at the Campaign for America\’s Future 2013 Awards Gala.
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McOutrage: Poverty Wages For Workers, Corporate Jet for Execs
McDonald\’s, with $1.5 billion in corporate profits, says it can\’t afford to give raises to its workers, but it can afford to buy a new corporate jet. Tell McDonald\’s to ground the jet and pay its workers a living wage.
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McOutrage: Poverty Wages For Workers, Corporate Jet for Execs
McDonald\’s, with $1.5 billion in corporate profits, says it can\’t afford to give raises to its workers, but it can afford to buy a new corporate jet. Tell McDonald\’s to ground the jet and pay its workers a living wage.
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The Website Glitches Right-Wingers Aren\’t Railing About
While the nation has been fixated on the problems with HealthCare.gov and as conservatives spin them, a similar computer meltdown has been taking place largely off the radar of most households.
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ALEC and TIAA-CREF Join The Assault On Public Pensions
The right-wing American Legislative Exchange Council has jumped into the conservative effort to dismantle public pension systems in a big way. So has TIAA-CREF, which markets the kind of plans that ALEC wants states to move to.
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The Cost Of The Tea Party Shutdown Keeps Getting Higher
Taxpayers are already starting to pay dearly for the gamesmanship of the Tea Party Republicans, and the unwillingness of House Speaker John Boehner to stand up to them.
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Why Janet Yellen Should Be Confirmed As Fed Chair
The nomination not only breaks a glass ceiling, but places at the helm of the Fed a person who is \”committed to both sides of the Fed\’s dual mandate\” to drive unemployment downward as well as keep inflation low.
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Time For Speaker Boehner to Let The House Speak For Itself
At least 23 House Republicans and 200 Democrats would vote for a \”clean\” continuing resolution that would allow federal agencies to reopen without preconditions. But House Speaker John Boehner is refusing to allow that vote.
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The Voters Who Elected The Obstructionists
A Democracy Corps report challenges progressives to present a narrative and a set of values that speak broadly to the economic anxieties that most Americans share.
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The \’Plot Against Pensions\’ Takes Aim At California
In the wake of our report on the effort to undermine public pensions, David Sirota writes in Salon about an organization created by John Arnold poised to lead an attack in California that could damage workers nationwide.