by Bill Scher | Oct 2, 2012 | Uncategorized
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: The Debate - Ask...
by Leo Gerard | Oct 2, 2012 | Blog
Republicans’ reaction to last week’s Monday Night Football debacle was record breaking given their decades of hating on union workers. After replacement refs bestowed on the Seattle Seahawks a game clearly won by the Green Bay Packers, GOP standard bearers Mitt Romney...
by Robert Borosage | Oct 1, 2012 | Blog, Economy
As Wednesday’s presidential debate approaches, the pundits are starting to handicap the event. There’s much talk about the horse race: Romney needs a knockout; Obama has to avoid a big mistake. Much talk about styling: Romney is practicing zingers; Obama is too...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Oct 1, 2012 | Blog, Economy
In the wake of an anemic jobs report that his Republican challengers are laying at his feet, President Obama could rightly respond that if he could have signed into law a jobs plan along the lines of what the House Progressive Caucus has proposed for the past two...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 1, 2012 | Blog, Economy
Want jobs? Here's how. Jobs have been on the agenda for some time. Republicans filibustered both (and are campaigning that there are no jobs). If you are reading, hearing or watching a report covering jobs and/or the campaign that does not include this information,...
