by Robert Borosage | Nov 30, 2012 | Blog, The Sequester
Pressure for a deal to avoid the so-called "fiscal cliff" at the end of the year is building. Even minor tremors in the stock market are treated as auguries of the panic that will attend a failure to act. A multi-million dollar campaign funded by Wall Street...
by Bill Scher | Nov 30, 2012 | Uncategorized
MORNING MESSAGE: What Progressives Can Learn From Public Education’s "Fiscal Cliff" OurFuture.org's Jeff Bryant: "Public education’s fiscal cliff already happened … new austerity budgets passed by state legislatures [have resulted] in drastic cuts in direct...
by Jeff Bryant | Nov 29, 2012 | Blog, Education, The Sequester
Public education's fiscal cliff already happened. The "austerity bomb" Paul Krugman warns us of in the New York Times was already dropped on public schools at least two years ago. And what impact the sequestration has on education is, in comparison, a ground assault....
by Robert Borosage | Nov 29, 2012 | Blog
Upon rumors of purported "grand bargain" including $400 billion in cuts to Medicare, Social Secuirty and Medicaid, Rep. Keith Ellision. the leader of the House Progressive Caucus, just said NO: WASHINGTON- Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN), Co-Chair of the Congressional...
by Digby | Nov 29, 2012 | Blog
Not that anyone cares, but it seems that a vast majority of the American public think raising the Medicare eligibility age is stupid: Greg Sargent talks about this issue in depth in this post. He says that the Republicans are refusing to name their demands on...
