Isaiah J. Poole

Isaiah J. Poole
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  • February 3, 2012 - 9:40am

    President Obama today will go to a fire house in the Virginia suburbs of Washington to tout his plan to promote hiring of veterans as first responders.

  • February 2, 2012 - 5:34pm

    On Wednesday the House voted to extend a two-year federal worker pay freeze an additional year. These workers, instead of getting a raise at the end of 2012, will have to wait until the end of 2013. (The House vote and our analysis is posted on our sister site, TheMiddleClass.org.)

  • Published Progressive Breakfast (Blog entry)
    January 31, 2012 - 8:44am

    On the menu this morning:

    • MORNING MESSAGE: China Cheats—Push May Come To Shove
    • Trade Battles with China
    • Florida Vote: From SuperPACs to Super Crash
    • More Mortgage Fraud Settlement Fears
    • Freddie Mac's Bets against Homeowners
    • Unemployment Compensation Fight
    • Breakfast Sides
  • January 30, 2012 - 2:32pm

    The statue of Civil War General James B. McPherson, which sits in the center of the square in downtown D.C. that bears his name, was used by Occupy D.C. protesters today as the center pole for a "tent of dreams," in rebellion against a National Park Service bar against sleeping in the park.

  • January 27, 2012 - 12:43pm

    Did you catch the reference in President Obama's State of the Union address to "poverty"?

    You can be forgiven if you didn't. Greg Kaufmann of The Nation, who recently launched a weekly column, "This Week in Poverty," on thenation.com, warns in his column today that if you review the video or the transcript of Obama's speech, "don't blink, you'll miss it."

  • Shared Apple's Flawed Arguments On American Jobs (Progressive Opinion)
    January 25, 2012 - 1:11pm

    We learn that 90 percent of the parts of an iPhone are made outside the U.S. Then we hear Jobs (as in Steve) say: "those jobs aren't coming back." But wait a minute. The parts we are talking about are microprocessors, memory chips, displays, circuitry, and chip sets. These are all the kind of advanced, high-tech, capital intensive, knowledge intensive, not cheap-labor intensive products in which economists, business leaders, and political leaders always say America has a comparative advantage because it is the technology leader. Why are South Korea, Taiwan, and Japan supplying the memory chips and micro-processors and displays instead of the United States? As a leading U.S. negotiator on these issues for some time, I can tell you.

  • January 25, 2012 - 8:03am

    We were hoping to get from President Obama's State of the Union address Tuesday night a bold, galvanizing vision of how the economy could be made to work once again for the 99 percent, the majority of Americans who are being left behind as the nation's wealth flows upward.

  • January 23, 2012 - 3:50pm

    In his State of the Union address, President Obama has a compelling story to tell the country about the importance of health security to America's middle class and why we have to stop the Republican assault on Medicare, Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act. The president has plenty of examples to make his case.

  • January 23, 2012 - 3:48pm

    Who should have the primary strategic responsibility for making American workers globally competitive – the private sector or government? This will be a defining issue in the 2012 campaign. In his State of the Union address, President Obama will make the case that government has a vital role. His Republican rivals disagree. Mitt Romney charges the President is putting “free enterprise on trial,” while Newt Gingrich merely fulminates about “liberal elites.”

  • Shared Maybe Romney Should Avoid Housing Policy (Progressive Opinion)
    January 23, 2012 - 3:40pm

    Mitt Romney apparently has a two-pronged message for Floridians, where the effects of economic crash and housing bubble were especially severe. The first is that Romney cares about Florida’s widespread foreclosures. And the second is that this is a real area of weakness for Gingrich. The message might have greater salience if the messenger had more credibility.