Record Student Loan Debt Shadows This Year’s College Graduates

Students face a Catch-22: not going to college almost guarantees not progressing into the middle class, but high student loan debt also restricts social and economic advancement.

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Chartering Disaster: Trump Admin's Education Priorities 'Asleep at the Wheel'

The federal budget proposal for 2020 includes increased funding to charter schools – even as a recent report shows $1 billion in federal funding went to charters that are now closed, or never even opened in the first place.

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U.N. Report Shows Democratic Socialism Can Work Under the Right Conditions

The World Happiness Report released last month showed the happiest country in the world in 2019, again, was Finland, followed by Denmark, Norway, Iceland and the Netherlands. Notice any connection?

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World Youth Strike Demands Immediate Action on Climate Change

The global Youth Climate Strike will have its official coming out party this Friday, March 15, when tens of thousands of young people worldwide skip school to protest climate inaction.

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Occupy Auto Loans: Delinquencies On the Rise Signal Shaky Foundations

The amount of subprime auto debt is far less than the amount of subprime home mortgage debt just before the 2008 recession – but the rising trend is nevertheless troubling economists.

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Occupy the Super Bowl: Atlanta's School System Suffers As Football Fever Reigns

Atlanta's public school personnel face a bleak economic future while the city is guaranteeing hundreds of millions of dollars for its Super Bowl host site.

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Food Aid In Jeopardy Nationwide Due to Government Shutdown

SNAP funding for 38 million Americans is fully covered by the federal government, but individual states are responsible for administering the program – and many may not be able through February.

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1 Year After Repeal of Individual Mandate, Health Coverage At Risk for More Americans

That element of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, along with other actions taken by the Trump Administration, are contributing to higher premiums, less coverage and more uninsured.

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One Year Later: The GOP Tax Cuts Made Wealth Inequality Much, Much Worse

The majority of gains from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 have gone to millionaires, billionaires and multi-billion dollar corporations, while workers have seen little to no gains.

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Wisconsin Heist Isn’t the First Time A Party Clinging to Power Thwarted Democracy

But a power grab of this nature hasn’t occurred for more than two centuries in America.

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