Author: Isaiah Jerome Lewis Poole
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The Bite of Apple: Firm Dodges Enough Taxes To Cover Much of Sequester
The scheme that Apple cooked up this week to finance a $55 billion stock buyback for its shareholders was orchestrated to avoid paying $9.2 billion in taxes, Bloomberg reported Friday. That $9.2 billion tax bill that Apple dodged would have been enough to make unnecessary all of the major budget cuts we\’ve been writing about…
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Enough Is Enough: Take Action Today To Fix A Broken Senate
Today, the Campaign for America\’s Future is joining 100 other organizations in delivering a message to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and his Republican counterpart, Mitch McConnell: Enough is enough. End the obstruction. Stop the constant abuse of the filibuster. The group Fix the Senate Now is collecting signatures on a petition that it plans…
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Pivot Point\’s Maya Rockeymoore On Whether Obama\’s Policies Are Failing Us
A critique of the impact on African Americans of using the chained CPI to limit the cost-of-living adjustment on Social Security benefits and my criticism of President Obama\’s jobs proposals were among the highlights of a one-hour discussion Sunday led by Maya Rockeymoore, the host of We Act Radio\’s \”Pivot Point\” and a leading progressive…
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Time To Demand A Vote To Increase The Minimum Wage
More than 15,000 people have signed a SignOn.org petition posted by the Campaign for America\’s Future to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour and then index it to inflation.
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Class War: Politico Acknowledges Key To Democratic Party Success
In our post-mortem of the 2012 elections, the Campaign for America\’s Future was one of the few organizations willing to say that \”class war\” was not only the common theme of many of the Democratic Party\’s electoral successes but it is a strategy that the party should proudly embrace as it moves toward the 2014…
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African Americans Still In Depression
Among African-American voters there are a significant segment that has complained for years that their votes are taken for granted by the Democratic party. It is the bloc whose unity around Barack Obama propelled him into the White House.
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Hedrick Smith: It\’s Human Deficits, Not Budget Deficits
Pulitzer Prize-winning former New York Times reporter Hedrick Smith is definitely on a mission these days, barnstorming the country not only to promote his latest book, \”Who Stole the American Dream?,\” but to help us change the focus of the Washington political debate from debt and deficits to restoring the economic prosperity of working-class Americans.…
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Back to Work Budget Is Defeated, But The Struggle Will Continue
The Congressional Progressive Caucus Back to Work Budget, as expected, did not prevail on the floor of the House of Representatives today. It went down to defeat, 84-327. In fact, it did not even win support from a majority of Democrats. But it did win a dramatic outpouring of support from ordinary Americans, which was…
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Inside CPAC: Adele Stan on the Takeaway For Progressives
Adele Stan, the Washington editor of AlterNet, says that as crazy and extreme as some of what is said and done at the Conservative Political Action Conference seems to be, progressives should still be concerned about the ability of conservatives to win the political narrative. She explains why in my interview with her after her…
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ALERT: The 124 House Members Who Need Your Calls On The Back To Work Budget
There are 124 member of Congress who need to hear from you now about your support for the Congressional Progressive Caucus Back to Work Budget. Between now and an anticipated vote on Tuesday, these offices need to be flooded with calls from constituents saying, \”Please vote for the Progressive Caucus Back to Work Budget.\” This…