Senator Planning Early Education Bill To Help Economy
When Sen. Tom Harkin asked a panel of education experts at a Thursday Senate committee hearing how they would improve the country's public schools, he...
When Sen. Tom Harkin asked a panel of education experts at a Thursday Senate committee hearing how they would improve the country's public schools, he...
Anand Reddi | Posted 01.01.2012
Last week, Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) and Representative Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) renewed efforts to enact a financial speculation tax. The Occupy movements across the United States should demand this initiative.
HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Needham | Posted 12.07.2011
DES MOINES, Iowa -- Sometime next week, Carey Miller and her staff at the Food Bank of Iowa will receive a shipment of 6,000 turkeys to store in the f...
HuffPost Radio | Posted 09.23.2011
Susan Ochshorn | Posted 08.21.2011
Only a tiny fraction of the many billions spent on public education is invested at the early end of the spectrum. We are missing a prime opportunity, one that we cannot afford to waste.
Debbie Hines | Posted 06.12.2011
With women making up roughly 46% of the US working population, it's a wonder why women earn less. We have come a long way, but still have got a long way to go to equal a man's paycheck.
HuffingtonPost.com | Chris Kirkham | Posted 05.25.2011
The Department of Defense has doled out increasing amounts of federal money in recent years to allow active-duty military personnel to pursue college ...
Dave Johnson | Posted 05.25.2011
Making filibustering senators talk all night gives the public an opportunity to rally, one way or the other. It also, frankly, puts on a show, which will engage the public, restoring interest in government. This is good and we should do it.
Robert Creamer | Posted 05.25.2011
Next year the Republicans will have ironclad control of the House. It would be outrageous if Democrats allowed a minority of Republican Senators to use the current rules to limit what the Democratic majority can do in the Senate.
Eli Y. Adashi | Posted 05.25.2011
The issuance of a temporary injunction barring the NIH from funding human embryonic stem cell research should hardly have come as a surprise. Many of the same plaintiffs and much of the same legal team filed a similar lawsuit a decade earlier.
Susan Sawyers | Posted 05.25.2011
A round-up of this week's education stories brought to you by The Hechinger Report. The word from Washington centered on the passage of an emerge...
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.25.2011
The only "student learning outcomes" these for-profit corporations posing as colleges recognize are those that fill their own pockets with tax dollars that are supposed to be going to deserving students who just want an education.
Mark Hyman, MD | Posted 11.17.2011
Those of us who believe in preventive health care, integrated health care, functional medicine, and complementary and alternative medicine have special reasons to celebrate the health care reform bill.
Aaron Zelinsky | Posted 05.25.2011
Senate Democrats are fighting for their electoral lives against the filibuster, and Harry Reid is folding the few cards left in his hand.
Sen. Tom Harkin | Posted 05.25.2011
In the 1950s, an average of one bill was filibustered in each two-year Congress. In the last Congress, 139 bills were filibustered. The GOP's abuse of it is unprecedented, routine, and increasingly reckless.
Linda Bergthold | Posted 05.25.2011
What is in the Senate bill that is worth passing? A lot. And what passes this year or early next year is only the beginning of the reform process.
Nancy Keenan | Posted 05.25.2011
We were united in our praise of Sen. Dodd and other members of the Senate for making history by passing the first health-reform bill out of a congressional committee.
Jerusha Klemperer | Posted 05.25.2011
Obama has been all over the place this past week putting forth his health care plan and I haven't heard one word about how food could save this country tons of money, while saving lives.
Ruby Reid | Posted 05.25.2011
Post-election legislative advocacy and activism by volunteers organized during an election campaign is unprecedented, especially on a national scale.
HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 03.08.2012