by MCDC | Apr 11, 2016 | 2016 General Election, Discrimination, Education, Employment, Income Inequality, Minimum Wage
We are in essence punishing the poor for their poverty, as if poverty were an ethical breach, not the result of interlocking social, political, and personal realities, many of which are entirely out of poor people’s hands. How often do city planners consider the...
by MCDC | Mar 23, 2016 | 2016 General Election, Health Care, Income Inequality, Issues, Minimum Wage, News, Opinion
Paul Ryan’s penance has not been matched by a broader effort to change the substance beneath the words. Ryan has long been the intellectual torchbearer of a public policy that would immediately hurt the same people he has decided to stop calling “takers.” For...
by MCDC | May 2, 2015 | 2015 General Election, 2016 General Election, 2017 General Election, Action Alerts, Citizens United, Civil Rights, Income Inequality, Issues, Minimum Wage, Opinion, Virginia
From a 4/26/15 lecture in Sperryville, Virginia, by Vernon Gras, Professor emeritus, English and Cultural Studies, Geroge Mason...
by MCDC | Mar 1, 2015 | Citizens United, Civil Rights, Health Care, Income Inequality, Minimum Wage
Libertarians fancy themselves radicals, and yet their rallying cry can be reduced to “You’re not the boss of me!” Libertarians believe themselves controversial and cool. They’re desperate to package themselves as dangerous rebels, but in reality they...
