Populist Unity Can Overcome the Establishment's Supermajority

By Edward Ring
07/12/2016
Back in 2012 we published an article entitled “The Forgotten 33%,” which included a graphic entitled “American Voter Breakdown 2012.” It depicted the U.S. electorate as comprised of 46% who pay zero net taxes, 20% who work for the government and are net tax consumers, the 1% “super rich,” and the “forgotten 33%,” who work in...

TAGS: Bernie Sanders, crony capitalism, Donald Trump, public sector unions

Populist Candidates Still Ignore Government Unions

By Edward Ring
06/07/2016
Nearly every objection that supporters of presidential candidates Trump and Sanders raise to the establishment are intimately associated with government unions. But neither the people’s voice, or that voice as it is reflected back to them by their populist heroes, articulates this fact. (1) Do you want to reform Wall Street? You’ll have to go...

TAGS: Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump, government unions, public sector union reform, public sector unions

Major-party presidential candidates offer no solutions on federal retirement crises

By California Policy Center
06/02/2016
For Immediate Release June 2, 2016 California Policy Center Contact: Will Swaim Will@CalPolicyCenter.org (714) 573-2231 SACRAMENTO — Californians may be accustomed to living with the specter of a public pension crisis. But the federal government’s problem with its retirement systems – including Social Security – is far worse, and yet none of the three remaining major-party...

TAGS: Bernie Sanders, CalPERS, CalSTRS, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, pensions, Social Security