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Progressive Breakfast - 4/19/2012
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: All Talk, No Action On Mortgage Fraud
Progressive Breakfast
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: All Talk, No Action On Mortgage Fraud
Kaplan University Suppressing Union Organizing In NYC
For-profit colleges and universities have a well-deserved reputation for deceptive recruiting, low-quality programs, and sky-high prices.
Ryan Budget A Loser In Republican Battlegrounds
House Republicans can call their budget a "Path to Prosperity" all they want, but as far as the American Majority is concerned, it's a path to political defeat for the politicians who support it—if progressives make the right arguments in favor of an alternative that grows the economy and protects the middle class.
Simpson-Bowles Zombie Returns
President Obama and many Democrats spent much of 2011 talking about deficits instead of doing something about jobs. Now, a too-close election is on the horizon (too-close because of spending 2011 talking about deficits instead of doing something about jobs) and we're being forced back to talking about deficits instead of jobs -- by a Democrat!
The Best Investment Any Corporation Will Ever Make
This is why I'm skeptical of the "lower the rates, flatten the base" comprehensive tax reform of which all the Village and the White House is so enamored. They always say that the key is to lower taxes at the same as we eliminate loopholes and get rid of all the "tax expenditures" and presto change-o we'll end up with even more money. Isn't that great? Like magic!
Well, that might work in theory, I suppose, but unless they institute the kind of lobbying reform that's probably impossible in our cash soaked system, this is how it will work in the real world:
Will AT&T Do A Komen And Ruin Its Brand By Hurting Workers
AT&T looks to be shooting for a double-bad award right now. They're backing the hyper-partisan ALEC, and they're trying to get their workers to take cuts while they shower cash on a few at the top. More and more, people are reacting to these kinds of attacks on We, the People -- look at what happened to the Komen Foundation!
Progressive Breakfast
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: Progressives Take Back Tax Day
Progressive Breakfast - 4/18/2012
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: Progressives Take Back Tax Day
Tax Day Protesters Challenge the Norquist Pledge
Today, as millions of Americans have coalesced to demand the wealthy to pay their fair share of taxes, one crusader, pledge in hand, stands in the way: Grover Norquist.
