Finally: Jobs, Jobs, Jobs

Robert Borosage: "Democrats finally got the subject right. They initially hoped to do a stealth, piecemeal plan. But House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's call for a jobs agenda and President Obama's summit invite responses closer to the scale needed to deal with the challenge we face." Read more »

A Jobs Bill Won't Work...Unless

"It still won’t change the need to restructure the rest of our economy so that it, too, provides good pay and benefits to all of us instead of concentrating all wealth and income at the top." Read more »

Health Care Reform Moves Forward

As the health insurance reform battle moves back to the Senate and the final stretch, progressives need to remember how far we have come, and why we must see this fight through to the end.

Phillip Cryan: Health Care Reform Now at a “Which Side?” Moment for Progressives | » read more

 PLUS
» Terrance Heath: The Morality of Health Care Reform 6 Part Series
» Read the Roger Hickey and Diane Archer statement
» Progressive Breakfast on bill details and progressive community reaction

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Conservatives' Race to Oblivion

The Republican party doesn't get that we are choosing what kind of country we want to be. The longer they rely on an increasingly extreme fringe, the further Americans will move away from them.
Terrance Heath: "Conservatives' Race to Oblivion " | » read more

PLUS
» Oliver Willis: "Liberal Elitism? No. Some People Are, Sadly, Stupid"
» Steve Benen: "The Stupid, It Burns (Literally)"
» Glynn Wilson: "Memo To the Tea-Baggers"
» Paul Krugman: "Paranoia Strikes Deep"
» Gene Lyons: "What Were The Republicans Smoking?"
Dennis Rahnkonen: "Fifteen Very Bad Things Conservatives Would Do (If They Got Their Way)"
» Terence Samuel: "That Old Republican Revival"