by Bill Scher | Aug 17, 2009 | Blog
As noted in today's Progressive Breakfast, the White House's stance on a public health insurance option is not new. The President and his staff have always made a strong argument for a public option, but have always refrained from refusing to sign legislation that...
by Bill Scher | Aug 17, 2009 | Uncategorized
Progressives Fight Back Hard To Protect Public Option WH again tries to calm progressives after hinting at dropping public option. The Atlantic's Marc Ambinder: "An administration official said tonight that Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius...
by Bill Scher | Aug 16, 2009 | Blog
The progressive netroots send a strong message on health care reform in the annual Netroots Nation straw poll, placing the issue as the top strategic priority, and settling for nothing less than directing the federal government to provide the option of a public health...
by Sam Pizzigati | Aug 16, 2009 | Blog
In 2007, the year before the Great Recession began, America's awesomely affluent partied — as never before. The evidence? We look at the year's freshly crunched income numbers. Emmanuel Saez, the Berkeley economist who many now consider the world’s top...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Aug 15, 2009 | Blog
When Valerie Jarrett, President Obama's senior adviser, addressed sometimes tough questions from bloggers and activists at the Netroots Nation conference in Pittsburgh, there was a consistent theme: If progressives are going to have much sway in the Obama...
