From the Great Society to the Debt Trap
The most financially vulnerable Americans are falling into the Debt Trap. By Larry Checco Fifty years ago, President Lyndon B. Johnson launched his Great Society, a set of domestic programs...
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A Student Call for a Maximum Wage
Top college and university executives regularly rub shoulders with their fellow top execs in Corporate America. What’s rubbed off on them in the process: a taste for excessive compensation. Top...
Warren Buffett: No to Higher Wages
The Oracle of Omaha may not be all that incredibly wise after all, just incredibly rich and sheltered from the real world of work.
World Bank Chooses Wrong Indicator
In a world with rising inequality, the World Bank should do a better job of measuring 'shared prosperity.' By Nick Galasso This piece is an adaptation of Nick’s recent article...
A Simple Idea: Free Education For All
With two new legislative initiatives, Senator Sanders is proposing to tax Wall Street speculators to guarantee all Americans a good shot at a college degree.
Civil War Rages On for Black America
By righting a 150-year-old wrong, re-enactors aim to help remedy long untreated ills at the root of today’s #BlackLivesMatter movement. Hundreds of African-American men marched to the White House this...
Candidates Stop Saying ‘Middle Class’
Instead of new rhetoric about the middle class, Presidential candidates should invent policies to save it.
2016 Agendas Tout CEO Pay Reform
A proliferation of 2016 progressive policy agendas include CEO pay reform.
Warren’s Fictional Inaugural Address
If Elizabeth Warren were elected President, what would she say in her inaugural address? By Robert Hertz [caption id="attachment_8977" align="alignright" width="300"] What would President Elizabeth Warren's agenda be for the...
Spending Versus Investing
We all suffer the consequences when government fails to invest. By Sheila Suess Kennedy [caption id="attachment_8966" align="alignright" width="300"] While your home mortgage is an investment, the new suit you recently...
Congressional Coddling of the Rich
Congress is gutting vital programs for the poor while heaping billions of dollars of relief on a few wealthy families.
Obama, Letterman, and the ‘I’ Word
If President Obama really wants upward mobility for poor people, then he should support downward mobility at the top. By Salvatore Babones [caption id="attachment_8944" align="alignright" width="300"] On the Late Show...