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Tanya McDowell Facing 20 Years in Prison for Sending Son to 'Wrong' School
Most nights, Tanya McDowell sleeps in a minivan. Other nights, she sleeps at a shelter or at a friend's house. So when it was time for her 5-year-old son, A.J., to go to school, she wrote down her...
View ArticleChase Bank Welcomes Home U.S. Soldier Back from Iraq by Auctioning Off Dad's...
Members of the Economic Fairness Oregon (EFO) team are in Bend, Oregon right now, meeting with Tim Collette as he prepares for a big day with two very different events - an emotional reunion with his...
View ArticleWhat One Retail Worker Can Accomplish
Less than two weeks before Thanksgiving, Anthony Hardwick's supervisor at his Target store in Omaha, Nebraska approached him about working on Thanksgiving Day."Weâre opening earlier this year. We...
View ArticleWhy You Should Be Worried About Public Education in Wisconsin
Take a look at what's happening in Wisconsin -- the right-wing's laboratory for privatization of public education.The President of the Milwaukee Teachers' Education Association (MTEA) penned a stunning...
View ArticleHow to Get Rich off Non-Profit Charter Schools
Why is Netflix CEO Reed Hastings so vocal about replacing public schools with non-profit charters? You're about to find out.The Economic Policy Institute released a report today that examines the...
View ArticleMilwaukee's Failed Experiments in Privatizing Education
An op-ed titled "Rocketship program is a model for inequality in education opportunity" ran in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel this past weekend. It was written by Gordon Lafer of the Economic Policy...
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