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How To Choose So Many Constitutional Amendments

There is a growing movement of people fed up with corporations-as-persons, money-as-speech, elections-for-sale in America. They are ready to amend the US Constitution as the only sure way to reverse the Supreme Court’s decisions in Citizens United v. FEC and Buckley...

Progressive Breakfast - 12/19/2011

Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what progressives need to effect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs, health care, green energy, financial reform, affordable education and retirement security. MORNING MESSAGE: Devastating,...

Devastating Job-Killing Socialist Regulations

Conservatives, their movement funded by big oil and king coal, constantly complain about "job-killing regulations." They say that the Environmental Protection Agency is pushing "socialism" because it wants to lower the amount of pollution that energy companies pump...

What the GOP Really Wants But Hasnt Gotten (Yet)

The sausage is nearly made. The deal is almost done. Shutdown has been averted. Again. For now. The process wasn't pretty, and progressives are justifiably disappointed that Democrats gave up on the millionaire's surtax — which had overwhelming public support, even...

Who Protects Info You Give To Offshored Call Centers

Companies are always looking for ways to reduce the number of people they employ, and for ways to reduce the pay and benefits for the ones they keep. One way they have been doing this is to send jobs out of the country to places where the people don't have the...

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