by Bill Scher | Aug 3, 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: Austerity Bites...
by Robert Borosage | Aug 3, 2012 | Blog
Austerity bites. According to the BLS, 163,000 new jobs were produced in July, up from the last month but still barely at the level needed to keep up with new workers coming into the jobs market. Government employment was down by 9,000 jobs, at a time when the...
by Bill Scher | Aug 2, 2012 | Blog
It is often stated as fact that Democrats always want to raise taxes and Republicans always want to lower taxes. We now know this to be false. Nearly every Republican in the Senate, nearly every Republican in the House and the Republican nominee for President Mitt...
by Dave Johnson | Aug 2, 2012 | Blog
Republican tax plans raise taxes on the middle class to pay for tax cuts on the rich. They just voted against tax cuts for people making under $250,000, and for tax cuts for people making more than that. Last month they filibustered the bill ending tax breaks for...
