Author: Isaiah Jerome Lewis Poole
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Full Employment: Demand of the Unfinished March
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. understood that a full employment economy is a prerequisite for economic justice. A renewed movement demanding full employment is now more crucial than ever.
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A Birthday Card For Social Security
You\’re looking good for a 78-year-old – and it\’s no wonder, given how hard you work to keep the nation\’s seniors, people with disabilities and survivors financially secure.
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Stand With Detroit, Stand With Cities
\”Stand With Detroit\” is about standing up to the conservative bullies in Congress and the states who have launched a sustained attack against cities and the programs that support their economic vitality.
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Sheila Bair\’s Case For Janet Yellen As The Next Fed Chair
Sheila Bair, the former chair of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and one of the few insider voices of sanity in the midst of the 2008 financial crisis, made the case for Federal Reserve vice chair Janet Yellen to replace Ben Bernanke as Fed chair when his term expires in January. Her op-ed for Fortune…
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Smart Talk On Raising the Minimum Wage – A Day Of Action
The floor is falling out from under workers. The federal minimum wage is not enough for a full-time worker to lift a family of three out of poverty. That is not right. The minimum wage for tipped workers – a miserly $2.13 an hour – hasn’t been raised in two decades. Wednesday is the National…
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When House Conservatives SNAP, Here\’s How Bad It Gets
House conservatives revealed a lot about themselves and their priorities when they passed a farm bill that did not include nutrition programs like SNAP – the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program, known best as \”food stamps\” – but fast-tracked, without real debate, entitlement programs for Big Agra. But that\’s not the half of it. It gets…
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Sinking In The New American Economy, And Looking For Champions [Video]
A memo released a few days by Democracy Corps, based on interviews with working-class voters in Florida and Ohio, has not gotten the attention it deserves. It underscores how deeply working-class people sense that there is something fundamentally wrong with the American economy, and that both the conservative wrecking crew in Congress and the green-shoots…
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Progressives Beat Back Walmart. Now Let\’s Beat Back Unemployment
Progressives won a victory in Washington this week when the D.C. City Council stood up to Walmart and passed a bill that would require the retailer, and other nonunion big-box retailers, to pay their employees a $12.50 minimum wage. Walmart promptly announced that it would halt plans to build six stores in the city, immediately…
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An Independence Day Imperative: Defeat the \’Dollarocracy\’
How did we get so far from the albeit naïve but nonetheless noble vision of the America that President Obama offered on his election night in 2008, that we are not just \”a collection of red states and blue states\” but \”the United States of America\”? One reason, suggests Robert W. McChesney, author and University…
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\’Up With Steve Kornacki\’ Asks What\’s Up With Home Care Worker Wages
The Fair Labor Standards Act – the law that gave us the minimum wage and the 40-hour work-week – turns 75 on Tuesday. President Obama could commemorate the day by taking a long-overdue action that would fulfill a campaign promise and heal a deep scar in the nation\’s New Deal legacy: Include home care workers…