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Progress and Peril on Home Opportunity

Dramatic developments this month have underscored our nation’s progress, as well as our continuing peril, when it comes to Home Opportunity—the deeply held American ideal that everyone should have access to an affordable home under fair conditions. These developments,...

Progressive Breakfast

MORNING MESSAGE: 44 Senators Say Rich Pay Too Much, Poor Pay Too Little OurFuture.org's Bill Scher: "How many Senators voted to raise taxes on the poor and the middle class, while cutting them for the wealthy … and then refused to back the Democratic bill...

Mitt Romney: The Gated Candidate

The wealthiest Americans live in gated communities, designed to shield them from the intrusion of those Ann Romney calls “you people.” Now Mitt Romney has taken that a step further, offering Americans a gated candidacy, with whole areas walled off to keep “you people”...

What Do You Mean "We," Anglo-Saxon Man?

First, Mitt Romney goes to the NAACP convention and basically tells a room full of Black folks, "If you knew what's good for you, you'd vote for me," without seeming to realize how condescending and arrogant he sounded. Then Ann Romney drops the "you people" bomb...

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