Category Archives: Project for American Employment & Economic Security
Policy Watch: April 2018
This week we bring you another Policy Watch, an informational series where we aim to [...]
James Howard Kunstler Talks Current Events From Comey to Syria to Zuckerberg
I had the pleasure to sit down with James Howard Kunstler, author of such notable [...]
Fracking Protests Hit Pennsylvania Capital
On Friday, April 13, more than one hundred protesters from across the state, even some [...]
Are Teacher Strikes a Growing Trend?
America is in a new “gilded age”, only without the mass child labor. We are [...]
Policy Watch: Gun Debate Rages in Congress
It is once more time for a new edition of Policy Watch, where we bring [...]
Official Blows Whistle on Illegal Immigrants Working on SoCal Construction Sites
We sat down for an incognito interview with Blaine Taylor (not his real name), a [...]
This Philadelphia Judge Has a Plan to Help, Not Hurt, Prisoners
Our country is in dire need of criminal justice reform. Crucial failings in our prison [...]
Policy Watch: Veterans in Need
We’re back once more for another edition of policy watch: Capitol Hill has been slow [...]
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to DC: California Democrats Shake Things Up
“Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; [...]
The Scars of Lancaster County
For over three years the citizens of Lancaster County have been fighting the construction of [...]
Trump’s New Budget Would Gut American Institutions
President Trump’s new budget proposal, released February 12, includes measures to end federal funding for [...]
California Dystopia: No Man’s Farmland
Those of us who live in California and oppose illegal immigration are often met with [...]
Policy Watch, February 2018
This is the beginning of an ongoing series we’d like to do called Policy Watch, [...]
In Political Dynasty, a Kennedy and a Trump are the Same
This morning, I read a story on how all eyes are on Representative Joe Kennedy [...]
Pennsylvania Supreme Court Rules Congressional Map Unconstitutional
Late afternoon on Monday, January 22nd, The Pennsylvania Supreme Court released a ruling on a [...]
Ancient Origins of Socialism and the Progressive Movement
Progressives have always moved society forward, for better or worse. It has always been the [...]
Putting a Trillion Into Perspective
The is our take on Charles Hugh Smith’s (oftwominds.com) perpective on how to visualize the [...]
Should We Question Fair Trade?
The other day my wife and I had the morning off together – a rare [...]
Washington is The New Versailles
In the dead of night, democracy died with a whimper. Withered husks of humanity, driven [...]
Pipeline Spills Justify Protester Outrage
On November 16, TransCanada, the owners of the Keystone Pipeline, reported that a portion of [...]
SEPTEMBER 1, 1939
This poem was written by W.H. Auden in 1939, a little over 77 years ago. [...]
Homage to the 23 Arrested Fighting Fracking
On May 16, 2017, twenty-three brave souls refused to leave the right of way forced [...]
Hooray for Hollywood Part 2
As we noted in our prior article on the latest round of Hollywood sex scandals, Harvey [...]
Hooray For Hollywood!
My family has lived in Southern California long before the movies arrived here. “THE INDUSTRY” [...]
California Dystopia Pt. 1
I was born the fifth generation of my family in Southern California sixty years ago. [...]
Take A Knee for Injustice
In August 2016, San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick began to sit for the national [...]
Why America Needs a Student Debt Jubilee
Student loan debt is a nationwide disaster. There is currently over 1.4 trillion dollars of [...]
Automation is a Grim Reminder of America’s Looming Labor Crisis
Someone I met recently told me about his recent conversations with some senior McDonald’s Corporation officials [...]
Fighting the Good Fight
It was a real pleasure to spend time with local community organizer Malinda Clatterbuck and [...]
Stand Up to The #Resistance
Look, I get it. I’m a millennial, and like every one of us I’m tired [...]