Author: Isaiah Jerome Lewis Poole
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No Social Dumping: A Plan To Make Trade Fair
The idea is to penalize countries and companies that try to win a competitive advantage in the marketplace by paying subpar wages, allowing unsafe working conditions or escaping compliance with environmental regulations.
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Memo To Media: Bullies And The Bullied Are Not The Same
The past few days, as the Congress careened toward today\’s government shutdown, the media has been inundated with pox-on-both-their-houses framing of the issue. We have to stand up to the media on this.
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Report Exposes The Right-Wing Tag Team Plotting Against Pensions
Enron billionaire John Arnold has teamed up with an arm of the Pew Charitable Trusts in a nationwide march to dismantle public pension benefits – while protecting tax giveaways to corporations and the wealthy.
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Why You Should \’Flush the TPP\’
A largely anonymous group of officials late last week wanted their work on the Trans-Pacific Partnership – often described as \”NAFTA on steroids\” – out of the spotlight. But a small group of activists put a spotlight on the negotiations.
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Why D.C. Mayor\’s Veto Of Walmart Wage Bill Is A National Outrage
The veto is the latest in a nationwide battle to end the practices of companies such as Walmart that build their businesses on the backs of workers receiving poverty wages and on the backs of taxpayers who subsidize their businesses.
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How Progressives Prepare For The Economic Debates Ahead
As Congress prepares to turn to a high-stakes budget battle, author David Cay Johnston and Progressive Caucus co-chairman Rep. Keith Ellison advise progressives on what it will take to win.
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New Evidence Trans-Pacific Trade Proposal Will Hurt Workers
A report says \”most workers are likely to lose\” as a result of the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement, and that what the economy will gain as a whole \”amounts to a rounding error.\”
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Another View Of The Capitol, Where Jobs Are Top Priority
Capitol Hill should adopt the prevailing perspective of Capitol View: Now isn’t the time to cut the supports the economy needs to grow again and working-class people need to get back on their feet.
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The Latest Effort to Sabotage Obamacare
In a last-ditch effort to thwart the Affordable Care Act, conservatives are now obstructing the people who offer factual information about the health insurance coverage the law entitles them to have. This video interview explains how.
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Obama at the Lincoln Memorial: Right Direction, Missed Opportunities
President Obama gave a speech that hit many of the right themes but failed to light a fire because its chemistry was not up to the demands of the moment. But, at the end, it is not the quality of the president\’s rhetoric that matters.