Day: February 6, 2015

If only conservatives would wise up and realize that making birth control more readily accessible would likely lead to far fewer unwanted pregnancies – and by virtue far fewer abortions. A program that provides contraceptives to low-income women contributed to a 40-percent drop in Colorado’s teen birth rate between 2009…

This is what we need more of….labor unions standing up and fighting against attempts to weaken labor unions and attack workers. Post by Jim Dixon. Labor unions in Illinois are fighting back against Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner after he proposed weakening Illinois public employee unions much like Gov. Scott Walker…

Here’s Democratic State Sen. Kathleen Vinehout’s latest newsletter discussing Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed $300 million evisceration of the UW System’d budget. “I love college, Mom,” my son told me. “There is nowhere else I can hear a conversation in a different language every day.” My son got me thinking about…