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Should Democrats Fold to Republican Demands?

The other day in the post Call Your Member Of Congress And Say “Discharge Petition,” I wrote about how Nancy Pelosi wants members of Congress to sign what is known as a “discharge petition” to force a vote on keeping taxes at current levels for people making under...

Progressive Breakfast

MORNING MESSAGE: Jobs Fix Deficits OurFuture.org's Dave Johnson: "The economy is slowing, with signs of trouble on the horizon. Trade deficits are huge, a bad manufacturing number this week, Europe still stagnant and slipping (because of austerity), China slowing...

Jobs First Because Jobs Fix Deficits

What happened to jobs? The pubic wants government to do something about jobs and getting the economy moving, and in DC the only thing is this weird argument about … anything but jobs and getting the economy moving! "Fiscal cliff?" What about jobs? Fixing the...

Why We Need Labor Unions After All

"All of a sudden it seems like there is a movement afoot of people saying we're going to push back." "And you know what? There should be a pushback." Henry Blodgett, in Why We Need Labor Unions After All Anyway, it would be great if companies would start sharing their...

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