Today's Ideas & Actions
May 18, 2013
Blog.OurFuture.org
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Kuttner’s “Debtors’ Prison”: A Much-Needed Brief Against Austerity
These days the economic news reads like some strange collaboration between John Steinbeck and Eugene Ionesco, a mashup of The Grapes of Wrath and The Bald Soprano.
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New Evidence That We Need To Strengthen Social Security, Not Weaken It
According to a Pew Charitable Trusts study released Thursday, baby boomers and Generation Xers are increasingly unlikely to be able to afford the costs of retirement, making critical the need for a strong Social Security program to bridge this income gap.
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Stop The Obstruction: Help Push Senate For NLRB Confirmations
The Senate is getting ready to vote on five nominees to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). They should confirm the whole package and get the NLRB functioning again.
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Rally For Good Jobs in Washington, DC
For weeks, I've been writing that the movement to increase the minimum wage near you. Next week, however, that movement will arrive in my own back yard.
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Time To Invest In Students, Not Just The Banks [VIDEO]
Thursday on Bloomberg Television, Robert Borosage made the case for Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s Bank On Student Loan Fairness Act, which would set student loan interest rates at the same rate banks get from the Federal Reserve discount window: “There is a universal consensus that we have to educate the next generation.
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Don’t Break Out the Bubbly Yet: 20 Million Americans Still Need Jobs
February’s unemployment numbers were better than the average job creation for the previous three months. The new jobs figures -- an additional 236,000 jobs in February with unemployment edging down to 7.7 percent -- reveal an economy that keeps chugging along against rising headwinds. But don’t break out the bubbly. We are still in a debilitating jobs recession. There are still more than 20 million people in need of full-time work.
