— Bernie Sanders stood before 10,000 screaming fans in this liberal college town on Wednesday night and promised to fulfill all of their progressive dreams: paid vacation for all, generous maternity leave, tuition-free public colleges, a minimum wage of $15, no more big banks, less youth unemployment, dramatic prison reform and an end to economic inequality.
The victories have been just as widespread with another priority of the labor movement, one that's emblematic of new progressive alliances: paid sick leave.
This new organizational and financial capacity should be funded by a new and regular progressive tax paid by everyone, and the revenues should go into a trust fund that can only be used according to clear and well-understood rules.
In my state, Connecticut, I'm proud to say that we have our own movement growing and this year will be introducing a progressive, comprehensive paid family and medical leave bill.
Armed with a favorable judgment, they could then force Progressive to pay their daughter's underinsured motorist claim in full.
Many liberals initially opposed the idea, because payroll tax rates aren't progressive (everyone pays the same rate) and because they tax only labor income.
Even as Progressive was paying money to the injured people under the terms of Ms. Fisher's liability policy, her family was making a claim on her underinsured motorist policy that she wasn't responsible at all.
The fact that social insurance payments would be graded according to income above a certain level means that that the scheme would be as progressive as paying it out of general taxation.
Everyone in the American family who needs a progressive society pays the price of our divisions.
Adding to this erroneous media framing is that the broader progressive community pays little attention to labor issues.
Only days ago, Brown smugly sat in a Senate subcommittee hearing telling Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., that his growers are "progressive" employers paying Immokalee farmworkers an average of more than $12 per hour.
