Even after we've left the classroom, let's challenge ourselves to stop flinching away from numbers or blindly trusting (or mistrusting) those reciting them.
Nearly half of the country's largest low-wage corporations spent more on CEO pay-inflating stock buybacks than on capital expenditures over the past five years.
Hamas' murder of six Israeli hostages, is a reminder not only that Hamas remains a danger to Israel, but that it is among the most immoral, illegal, and barbaric groups in the world.
Jon Polin said it well at the Democratic National Convention, declaring to thunderous applause that the freedom of Israeli hostages, including his son Hersh, among five Americans, is a humanitarian issue.
Kamala Harris and Tim Walz stand for the things that matter most to the people I represent, who work in education, health care, and government service, and to all working people.