A minimum wage increase, a earning rate that affects just 1.1 percent of Americans workers over the age of 25, is one of the key 2014 policy priorities for President Barack Obama and his supporters. It’s a small goal that ... READ MORE
Last night, just minutes after the end of the State of the Union, ten members of the National Center’s Project 21 black leadership network issued blistering rebuttals to President Barack Obama’s angry rhetoric and sweeping promises. Today, some of those ... READ MORE
Read it here this morning. 2. Maybe the Hatch-Burr-Coburn health plan did do some good. I don’t think much of their health care plan for reasons I list here. But, perhaps by releasing it a day before SOTU, it prevented ... READ MORE
Can President Obama be trusted to try to keep the promises he makes in his State of the Union address? Does ObamaCare's HHS contraception and early abortion drug mandate harm women or the poor in some fashion, and if so, ... READ MORE
At last night’s Grammy Awards, where the news was supposed to be about the year’s best musical performances, politics became performance art as 33 couples — many of them same-sex couples — were married at the awards ceremony. The couples ... READ MORE
In what was apparently his odd way of honoring the spirit of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the Reverend William Barber II, president of the North Carolina chapter of the NAACP, chose to demean the first black senator to serve ... READ MORE
As part of an ongoing series of reports on income inequality, Project 21 member Hughey Newsome provided expert commentary on the January 24 edition of “Special Report with Bret Baier” on the Fox News Channel. Hughey talked about remedies to ... READ MORE
In a "The Root" column, Legalized Marijuana: Will White People Get the Good Pot?, writer Charles Ellison worries: What kind of weed will certain populations get? Will market forces command higher grades of pot sold to some and lower grades ... READ MORE
In an interview with WorldNetDaily, Project 21 member Council Nedd II — the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Missionary Church — speculated that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. would have remained more conservative than his former colleagues had he lived ... READ MORE
After being taken to task for virtually ignoring what they now report is “the world’s largest” pro-life event that has been happening on their home turf for decades, it appears the shareholder activism of the National Center’s Free Enterprise Project ... READ MORE
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