The Republican National Committee announced last Tuesday that the 2016 GOP convention will be held in Cleveland sometime in late June or mid July. As Bloomberg reported last week, “the GOP’s site selection committee has recommended June 28 or July 18, and RNC chairman Reince Priebus is said to prefer June.” Strategists and news commentators, […]
A judge in Florida ruled on Thursday that two voting districts must be redrawn to accommodate state law, finding that they were so gerrymandered that they made a mockery of the state’s new law. Florida voters passed a law in 2010 requiring that districts be drawn without any partisan advantage, and as the Tampa Bay […]
Female workers make 77 cents for every dollar that male workers make. Learn more about the wage gap in America and what’s being done about it. [1] It’s 2014, the Digital Age. You might think that discrimination against women in the workplace is over, that it disappeared alongside corded phones and typewriters. But astonishingly, women […]
On Thursday, President Obama gave one of the best speeches I have ever heard, defining the difference between Democrats and Republicans. The President spelled out the policies Democrats support to assist the middle class. Most important, Obama pointed out that Democrats have specific proposals and are willing to compromise. He ended this portion of his […]
What does a “year of action” mean, exactly? The President will continue to work with Congress wherever he can to keep our economy moving forward and creating jobs. But in the meantime, he’s also going to do everything he can on his own to fight for middle-class families every single day. And he’s been busy. […]