Isaiah J. Poole
Isaiah J. Poole is the communications director for People's Action. The former \editor of OurFuture.org, he worked for 25 years in mainstream media, most recently at Congressional Quarterly, where he covered congressional leadership and tracked major bills through Congress. He also served as a founding member of the Washington Association of Black Journalists and the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association. Follow him on Twitter: @ijpoole.
ALL POSTS BY Isaiah J. Poole
August 11, 2017Trump may have won the presidency, but he did not win a mandate to govern.
August 7, 2017What the nation needs is not an assault on immigration, but an assault on the effects of structural racism and economic inequality.
May 4, 2017Democrats have an opportunity to cast a vote for the economic growth that Trump promised in his campaign but has proved incapable of creating.
February 28, 2017The White House isn't planning much new federal spending on infrastructure, focusing instead on "public-private partnerships" unlikely to bring enough good-paying jobs.
May 25, 2016Progressive groups band together behind a new plan to rein in the financial services industry and give working people and consumers a shot in our economy.
May 17, 2016Government inaction to fix existing infrastructure is costing each US household lots of money each year.
December 9, 2015The progressives that Clinton is clearly trying to win over need to keep pressing for bolder reforms.
September 15, 2015On Monday, Sanders went to a pillar of the religious right – Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va. – to make the case that fighting for economic justice is a moral undertaking.
May 14, 2015It’s time to ignore the people on the right who refuse to make the connection between a disaster and the obstruction of investments that could have prevented it.
January 27, 2015Multinationals' promise to spend tax break cash on infrastructure and jobs is bogus.
