by Robert Reich | Mar 22, 2013 | Back to Work Budget, Chained CPI, Too Big To Jail
Prominent Democrats — including the President and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi — are openly suggesting that Medicare be means-tested and Social Security payments be reduced by applying a lower adjustment for inflation. This is even before they’ve started budget...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 22, 2013 | Back to Work Budget, Making it in America
First it was Fix the Debt, with tax-dodging corporations "leading the charge for massive new corporate tax cuts paid for with cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid." Now there's a new "LIFT America coalition," pushing for massive, massive corporate tax cuts,...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 21, 2013 | Back to Work Budget
The House voted on budgets yesterday and austerity won. 84 Democrats voted for the jobs and growth "Back To Work Budget" from the Congressional Progressive Caucus. 102 Democrats voted against it. (1 voted "present" and 13 were not voting.) Here is the roll call vote...
by Robert Borosage | Mar 21, 2013 | Back to Work Budget, Minimum Wage
Washington has been fascinated by Republican self-laceration since the 2012 election. Karl Rove triggered a circular firing squad by vowing to take out unwashed challengers in GOP primaries. Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal begged Republicans to stop being the “stupid...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Mar 20, 2013 | Back to Work Budget
The Congressional Progressive Caucus Back to Work Budget, as expected, did not prevail on the floor of the House of Representatives today. It went down to defeat, 84-327. In fact, it did not even win support from a majority of Democrats. But it did win a dramatic...
by Derek Pugh | Mar 20, 2013 | Back to Work Budget, The Sequester
Campaign for America’s Future, the AFL-CIO, and more than 60 national organizations today had one simple message for Congress: Repeal the sequester. Over 300,000 activists joined forces for a national day of action in Washington and in their local communities....