Progress Michigan blog posts.
(This guest post was written by David Hecker, President of the AFT Michigan.) A few weeks ago, before a joint session of Congress, President Obama outlined the American Jobs Act and said, “ there are schools throughout this country that desperately need renovating. How can we expect our kids to do their best in places that…
“This is really powerful.” Michelle, a transit worker from New York City, was standing near Broadway and Liberty, taking in the hundreds of people packed into Zuccotti Park. “This” was Occupy Wall Street. She was right: It was extremely powerful. Power is a central concept – a basic human need – driving the #OWS movement…
Americans are beyond angry and frustrated with not being heard by the people they elect – who only listen to the millionaires and corporate sponsors who fund their campaigns. That’s why you’re seeing Americans from unemployed people to airline pilots taking to the streets. America was founded as a country where we reward hard work…
Dr. Tom Wagner of NASA explains the sea ice minimum in simple terms:
After spending the last few months demagoguing about introducing so-called “Right To Work” laws that would destroy what’s left of the manufacturing base in this state and pull down the wages of the middle class, the state Senate, led by Sen. Randy Richardville, has introduced “Right To Work” legislation, with a devious twist. The law…
There’s probably no stopping the constant lecturing of Tea Party Republicans about how awful it was for the federal government to have rescued GM and Chrysler. And it would be too much to expect them to understand how collective bargaining between unions and management can produce positive outcomes for civil society. But for the rest…
A poignant video from the Michigan Education Assocation: Republicans in Lansing voted to give a $1.8 billion tax break to rich CEOs and corporate special interests — paid for by cuts to our local schools. Big banks and oil companies got a massive tax break, while our children are being robbed of their opportunity to…
Unemployment in Michigan continues to rise month by month and many in Congress are going out of their way to protect millionaires over workers – but Michiganders were granted a unique opportunity when two of our lawmakers in Washington were appointed to the debt reduction super committee. However it has quickly become evident that the…
Peter Sinclair takes a look at the Arctic’s disappearing ice in today’s Climate Denial Crock of the Week:
Here is a poignant video from America’s students calling on Congress to pass the American Jobs Act and help put over 280,000 educators back to work while modernizing over 35,000 of our nation’s aging public schools: