Daily Archives: November 13th, 2012

Posted inEconomic Security, Policy Topics

Occupy offshoot launches “Rolling Jubilee”

by Andrew Villeneuve

Last week an off­shoot of Occu­py Wall Street launched Rolling Jubilee, a new project billed as “a bailout for the 99%”. The project, which has been gen­er­at­ing con­sid­er­able inter­est in the finan­cial press, aims to help out ordi­nary Amer­i­cans by pur­chas­ing and abol­ish­ing their debt. It’s a nov­el idea: Banks sell debt for pen­nies on the […]

Posted inBreaking News, Elections, Public Service

U.S. Representative Suzan DelBene sworn into office as our newest member of Congress

by Andrew Villeneuve

All of us at NPI would like to extend our warmest con­grat­u­la­tions to our good friend Suzan Del­Bene, who, as of today, is the newest mem­ber of Con­gress from the great state of Wash­ing­ton, suc­ceed­ing our gov­er­nor-elect. Suzan, as most read­ers like­ly know, was eas­i­ly elect­ed to serve out the remain­der of Jay Inslee’s term […]