What Would You Do With $3 TRILLION?
Three trillion dollars. Think about all the state budgets that could be helped with that money. The teachers, firemen, police officers whose jobs could be preserved. The millions of people we could...
View ArticleWar or Teachers: The Choice Before Us
My refrain, whenever I hear about the "deficits", is very simple: we have plenty of money. We are the richest nation in human history. The problem is our priorities. And this week it boils down to...
View ArticleThese Jobs Don’t Need Education–They Need a Fair Wage
I’ve never been sold on the notion of education as the saving grace of this unholy economic system. The problem in the country–and the world–is not that people are not smart enough or that they need...
View ArticleAmerican Dream Done: WSG–Steep, Lasting Drop in Wages
The jobs crisis is really devastating. We all know the numbers on how many people are out of work. But, the truth is that just calling for more jobs is not enough–because what we lack in the country is...
View Article“Free Trade” Bribe: The Retraining Scam
Every so-called "free trade" deal that has shimmied its way through Congress has been greased with legalized bribery, starting with NAFTA in 1993, which was the king of all "what will buy your...
View ArticleCalifornians: Go Ahead, Make My Day and Tax Me
I happened on this one during my Sunday morning check of the West Coast weather (since I have to head out there this week–beach weather? Baseball weather?). California is often cited as the place...
View ArticlePeople Believe Stupid Stuff When Leaders Regurgitate Nonsense
I have a good friend who is always sputtering about "how terrible our educational system is because how can people think this?", whatever the preposterous "this" of the moment is. But, I see it...
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Three Grand Myths
Last week, I posted a piece, suggesting that the current crisis was really about us and the lack of a movement, not about Obama. A number of people reacted, in emails to me, particularly about the...
View ArticleBernie: America’s Approach to Children an “International Embarrassment”
So true. The country where politicians run around talking about “family values” and never miss a chance to be photographed with a child–while too many of them cut health care for kids and vote for...
View ArticleEpisode 129: Oregon Teachers Uprising; The Shame of Kids’ Poverty; Savings...
Just hours ago, 25,000 teachers and their supporters massed in Portland, Oregon to demand a fully-funded education system—it’s another moment in the incredible teacher organizing that has swept the...
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