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Today's Big Idea To Get America Working: Revive American Manufacturing
When President Nixon went to China in 1972, manufacturing was 22 percent of the nation's economy. It was still 20 percent of the nation's economy eight years later when China was granted most-favored-nation trading status.
Grijalvas Border Infrastructure And Jobs Act
Congressman Raul Grijalva has introduced The Border Infrastructure and Jobs Act of 2011.
Infrastructure
Good Lord, what is the matter with people? There are millions of jobs that need doing, and millions of unemployed. How hard is it to figure out what to do?
Closing Loopholes To Keep Jobs in America
Just as public works projects launched by FDR put millions of unemployed people to work during the Great Depression, the Obama administration has pushed to invest billions in public works projects to create jobs for millions of today’s unemployed. But many of the dollars that are intended to create those jobs are instead creating jobs overseas.
Transportation Progressives Fast Lane vs Conservatives Dirt Road
The House of Representatives this afternoon scheduled a vote on a three-month, stopgap transportation funding bill, as conservatives struggle to decide what sort of long-term transportation plan it is willing to put on the House floor for a vote.
The Zombie Rises The Return of Simpson-Bowles
2013 Budget Debate May Be Setting The Standard For Crazy
Originally posted at Capital Gains and Games.
If you weren't convinced that anything related to the federal budget on Capital Hill is completely nuts this year, just think about these three things, all of which are happening this week:
The White House and Mortgage Fraud So Far Its All Talk No Action
The Obama Administration worked for months on a deal that would have let America's biggest banks off the hook for a crime wave of runaway mortgage fraud. All they had to do in return was pledge a negligible sum of money, to be paid by their shareholders and not themselves, and which they would dispense themselves.
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.
