The State Policy Network’s annual meeting is the “must attend” networking and knowledge sharing event for more than 1300 professionals from state and national policy-related organizations from around the country. As a grassroots policy discussion network, The...
This year, as we come together as a nation to celebrate Labor Day, let’s pause to understand where a movement which began in 1881 to protect workers is at in its mission. When were the first unions formed? The Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions was formed...
On August 7th, former Google software engineer James Damore was punished for circulating a 10-page document that he and others have described as a “reasoned, well-researched, good-faith argument.” The opposing opinion is that his document furthered a trend of sexism...
An interesting tidbit on how the government operates…on autopilot: approximately 80% of what the government spends on a yearly basis is spent without “any action by the current Congress.” Did you know that we are just now ending our preparation for a Y2K bug that...
Where can a conversation possibly go when someone tells you that a new health care reform plan is going to take health coverage away from 22 million people? With the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) backing that claim…surely that is a showstopper. Not so fast. Along...
