Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren said Sunday that Kamala Harris' historic role as the nation's first female, Black and South Asian vice president signals "women are one step closer" to getting top jobs as the country continues to grapple with gender equality in politics.
Biden calls time on Trump’s four-year moratorium on truth
Donald Trump will go down in history as the worst United States president ever. In terms of higher education, he will be remembered not only as a president hostile to its fundamental purpose – the pursuit of knowledge – but also as one who failed to leverage the strengths of US universities to make for a better world.
The extent to which the Trump administration leaves a higher education legacy will perhaps best be determined by the shelf life of its meagre policy accomplishments. But the damage done from his four-year moratorium on truth and his unending embrace of nationalism presents a deeper challenge.
Sanders, Warren Warn Senate Majority Will Be Used in Very Aggressive Way if GOP Blocks Stimulus
On 1/23/21 at 2:45 PM EST
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders said he s prepared to pass major Senate Budget Committee legislation with a simple 51-vote majority, as he and other progressive lawmakers warned Republicans not to stall the next stimulus relief package because we have the majority.
Sanders and Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren made independent remarks this week stressing that Democrats must deliver for America, even if congressional Republicans plan on holding up the next pandemic relief bill. Progressives are urging President Joe Biden and fellow Democratic lawmakers to capitalize on their first Senate majority in six years by leveraging the recently demoted Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. The Kentucky Republican is currently threatening filibusters and other obstructionist moves to slow Democrats momentum. But Sanders said he will not hesitate to push bills throug
Group of CA Latino Leaders Endorses Bernie Sanders
By Sandra G. Leon
A meeting of nearly 100 Latino community leaders and activists in Los Angeles last week led to a historic endorsement of Bernie Sanders for President just two weeks before the California primary election.
The group, called the Latino Leadership Summit Committee for Sanders for President, was headed by former University of Riverside political science professor Dr. Armando Navarro, Professor Tinker Salas, historian from Pomona College, and retired professor of sociologist Jose Calderon from Pitzer College, and included various community activists that have come together to support Senator Sanders.
“Inspired by Sanders’ transformative agenda and driven by their determination to defeat the re-election of Republican President Donald Trump, Latino Summit participants adopted ‘El Plan de Riverside’,” Dr. Navarro said after the meeting. “It seeks to ignite the rise of a statewide and ultimately a nationwide
New presidential administration will likely bring some student loan debt cancellation
As a new presidential administration takes office, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren hopes to cancel some student loan debt. Canceling that debt would impact about 40 percent of Brandeis students students who rely on federal loans to pay Brandeis’ higher than average tuition.
The federal government has paused payments and involuntary collections on federal student loans due to the coronavirus pandemic a rule that was set to expire Jan. 31, but one President-elect Joseph Biden will extend when he assumes office. As the pandemic has caused job losses and an economic slowdown, Warren renewed her calls for debt cancellation in a Dec. 7 virtual meeting with student journalists across the country.