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Dont Let Congress Kick College Grads In The Teeth
Here’s the real debt crisis: student loan debt. Today, the average student graduates from college with a diploma and an anchor — $25,000 of debt.
And if Congress doesn’t act, student loan interest rates will double on July 1.
Medicare and Social Security Fact vs Myth
In the coming days and weeks we'll be hearing a lot of misinformation about the Trustees Report from the Social Security Administration. It's time to separate the myths from the realities:
Myth: "Social Security and Medicare have a cost problem."
We Need Bold Steps To Make College Affordable
The White House has ramped up its efforts this week for congressional action to prevent interest rates on the Stafford federal college loan program, now at 3.4 percent, from doubling on July 1.
Snapshots of Austerity Desperation
When Greek prime minister Lucas Papademos, in his statement concerning the austerity-driven suicide of 77-year-old pensioner Dimitris Christoulas, called on Greeks to "support those next to us who stand in despair," he either missed or ignored the same point that austerity boosters here at home blithely ignore. How can people "support those who stand next to us in despair," when so many have already reached that last stop before oblivion, and those who haven't yet are being driven there down a wide road called "Desperation"?
What else is Papademos — appointed to ensure that Greeks got austerity, and got little or no say in the matter — to do? He's there to make sure the people he really works for get what they want. So, the prime minister has to ignore that Greece's Independence Day celebrations required tight security — such that citizens were banned from entering Syntagma Square the very square where Dimitris Christoulas put a bullet in his brain — because of very real fears that anti-austerity protesters would attack politicians. He has to ignore the reason why 4,000 police officers (plus more than 800 riot police) had to lock down the city of Athens, to ensure things went off without a hitch.
Just as his government ignored the tens of thousands of protestors on its doorstep, to pass he austerity measures, had to recognize the despair inherent in Dimitris Christoulas' suicide while ignoring the desperation that drove him to it, and how austerity has made desperation part of every day life for many Greeks.
Snapshots of Austerity Despair
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. 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. Wear black on Saturday. It is Workers’ Memorial Day, a time devoted to commemorating those killed on the job. A month later, on soldiers' Memorial Day, the nation will recognize those who sacrificed their lives for American ideals, for a nation’s freedom. That ultimate gift is given in most cases valiantly and voluntarily. Brace yourself for another round of ideologically-driven hysteria. It will be pushed by wealthy right-wing power brokers, aided and abetted by the entrenched power elite which Bill Clinton and his kind of Democrat have come to represent. Here are some headlines you won't see after the government releases new figures on Social Security and Medicare later today: "Social Security Trust Fund Even Larger Than It Was Last Year"
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Progressive Breakfast - 4/24/2012
MORNING MESSAGE: There Still Is No Social Security Crisis
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: There Still Is No Social Security Crisis
End the Delays Deadly to Workers
Centrist Theology Watch Will the Clinton Dems Fail America and Ignore the Real Medicare Crisis
Social Security and Medicare Behind the Numbers and the Spin
"Growing Wealth Inequity Will Lead to Social Security Imbalance Later This Century"
"For-Profit Healthcare Poses Threat to Medicare, Federal Deficit, and Overall Economy in Coming Decades"
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