Isaiah J. Poole

Isaiah J. Poole

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Isaiah J. Poole
Hometown: Washington, DC
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  • Published Our Demand For Real Investment (Blog entry)
    November 18, 2008 - 10:18am

    Capitol Hill staff members, activists and experts met across the street from the Capitol this morning to build the case for "real investment in America"—shifting the focus from bailing out Wall Street to getting back to the basics of what made America great: its investments in public goods and people. We live-blog this conference.

  • Broadcast Wage Theft Exposed (Video) | November 16, 2008 - 9:44pm
  • Broadcast The Change Election: Greenberg and Borosage (Video) | November 16, 2008 - 9:39pm
  • Shared Investing Our Way To Recovery (Progressive Opinion)
    November 14, 2008 - 11:36am

    Critics say federal spending on infrastructure would happen too slowly to have an impact in an economic downturn. But that wouldn't be true in this crisis. Here's why a properly designed recovery package can have a swift impact on jobs and the economy.

  • Shared Wage Theft Exposed (Video)
    November 14, 2008 - 10:07am

    Millions of workers are being robbed every payday, and the federal watchdogs that are supposed to be keeping this from happening are snoozing on the job.

  • Shared The Change Election: Greenberg and Borosage (Video)
    November 11, 2008 - 3:01pm

    Campaign for America's Future co-director Robert Borosage and Democracy Corps' Stan Greenberg discuss a 2008 joint post-election poll that shows that President-elect Barack Obama and Congress have a progressive mandate to govern.

  • Shared Baby, They're Not Drilling (News Headline)
    November 5, 2008 - 11:11am

    In the wake of the conservative push to open up more areas to oil drilling, there's new evidence that the lands that are already available aren't being tapped.

  • Published A Heartbeat Away: Hazardous Health-Care Policy (Blog entry)
    October 30, 2008 - 1:23pm

    The health care plan advocated by presidential candidate Sen. John McCain is hazardous to your health. That is the point of this 30-second video by Health Care for America Now that succinctly hits its key flaws. It's a video anyone concerned about health care should see before they go to the polls on Tuesday.

  • Broadcast Sinking Economy Shakes Denial (Blog entry) | October 30, 2008 - 9:54am
  • Published Sinking Economy Shakes Denial (Blog entry)
    October 30, 2008 - 9:53am

    Today's news that the economy is sinking further into recession—gross domestic product growth decreased at an annual rate of 0.3 percent in the third quarter—is making it clearer that there is only one

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  • Published Our Demand For Real Investment (Blog entry)
    November 18, 2008 - 10:18am

    Capitol Hill staff members, activists and experts met across the street from the Capitol this morning to build the case for "real investment in America"—shifting the focus from bailing out Wall Street to getting back to the basics of what made America great: its investments in public goods and people. We live-blog this conference.

  • Shared Investing Our Way To Recovery (Progressive Opinion)
    November 14, 2008 - 11:36am

    Critics say federal spending on infrastructure would happen too slowly to have an impact in an economic downturn. But that wouldn't be true in this crisis. Here's why a properly designed recovery package can have a swift impact on jobs and the economy.

  • Shared Wage Theft Exposed (Video)
    November 14, 2008 - 10:07am

    Millions of workers are being robbed every payday, and the federal watchdogs that are supposed to be keeping this from happening are snoozing on the job.

  • Shared The Change Election: Greenberg and Borosage (Video)
    November 11, 2008 - 3:01pm

    Campaign for America's Future co-director Robert Borosage and Democracy Corps' Stan Greenberg discuss a 2008 joint post-election poll that shows that President-elect Barack Obama and Congress have a progressive mandate to govern.

  • Shared Baby, They're Not Drilling (News Headline)
    November 5, 2008 - 11:11am

    In the wake of the conservative push to open up more areas to oil drilling, there's new evidence that the lands that are already available aren't being tapped.

  • Published A Heartbeat Away: Hazardous Health-Care Policy (Blog entry)
    October 30, 2008 - 1:23pm

    The health care plan advocated by presidential candidate Sen. John McCain is hazardous to your health. That is the point of this 30-second video by Health Care for America Now that succinctly hits its key flaws. It's a video anyone concerned about health care should see before they go to the polls on Tuesday.

  • Published Sinking Economy Shakes Denial (Blog entry)
    October 30, 2008 - 9:53am

    Today's news that the economy is sinking further into recession—gross domestic product growth decreased at an annual rate of 0.3 percent in the third quarter—is making it clearer that there is only one

  • Shared Don't Blame The Accounting (Progressive Opinion)
    October 28, 2008 - 9:24am

    Financial companies and their allies are claiming the rules by which they value their assets—known as "mark-to-market accounting—are too strict. This week the Securities and Exchange Commission is examining those rules amid claims that by forcing companies to value complex, illiquid securities at artificially low market prices, U.S. and world financial systems were unnecessarily crippled. But the SEC shouldn't allow this accounting rule to be the scapegoat.

  • Published Tax Cuts An Inefficient Stimulus (Blog entry)
    October 27, 2008 - 11:04am

    A federal spending program that only yielded 37 cents of benefit for every dollar spent, or even less, would generate sustained demands from the conservative chattering class that it be shut down. So why does the right keep selling extending President Bush's tax cuts as an economic stimulus tool?

  • Published Greenspan's Revisionist History (Blog entry)
    October 23, 2008 - 11:06am

    Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan today engaged in an attempt to rewrite history that was so egregious that even CNBC anchor Mark Haines, a free-market cheerleader, was aghast.

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