It’s race, class AND punditry predictions: In most elections, the intricacies of voting procedures rarely warrant headlines or interest most Americans. But in 2012, voter identification laws took center stage. In fact, in the five years preceding the 2012 election, almost half of states enacted some form of legislation restricting voter access — such as …
The American Enterprise Institute Identifies the Problem
A lobbyist for the American Enterprise Institute finally acknowledges income inequality: I’m all about solutions, “what works” as they say in the punditry trade, so I read this entire fable to get to the solutions offered by the American Enterprise Institute. I’m a self-taught student of our fake-debate on “ed reform” so I know every …
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“Forgive us, our policy led our schools astray”
Sadly, more than a decade of evidence and facts under both Bush and Obama don’t seem to have “taken the shine off” this “market reform” education model in the US: When one of the biggest private education firms in Sweden went bankrupt earlier this year, it left 11,000 students in the lurch and made Stockholm …
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Pull back on the one man, one vote business
Good piece on Mandela and conservatives, then and now: William F. Buckley was the founder of National Review, and America’s leading conservative intellectual for much of the second half of the 20th century. He was also an explicit supporter of white supremacy — throughout the 1950s and 1960s he scoffed at the idea that either …
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Fighters For Fifteen
The fast food strikers were out again yesterday: With support from union groups such as the Service Employees International Union, the fast-food protests have dramatically grown over the course of the last year. The early protests in New York City in November grew to thousands of protesters waging actions in seven other cities during the …
Jumping thru hoops to vote shows grit and determination
Republicans must be feeling some pre-election jitters because they’re rolling out the zany rule changes: Florida Gov. Rick Scott’s (R) chief election official issued new rules Monday night that could hamper absentee voting, just months before Floridians in the state’s 13th Congressional district take part in a special election to replace the late Rep. C.W. …
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They could “challenge the social justice narrative” by treating their employees better, and they wouldn’t even have to hire a consultant
Low wage employers don’t have enough money to pay their employees more but they have plenty of money to launch smear campaigns and hire “crisis management” consultants: Worker Center Watch has no information its website about its sponsors. Yet the group attacks labor activists and community labor groups for lacking transparency. “Hiding behind these non-profits, …