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Latest Reagan Revolution Price Tag: A $313 Billion Wage Cut
There's another chapter to add to the narrative my colleague Dave Johnson sketched out some weeks ago about how the Reagan revolution has come home to roost, based on sobering statistics uncovered by David Cay Johnston.
Where Is The Chamber's Infrastructure Push?
The Chamber of Commerce and the AFL-CIO promised a big infrastructure push. The AFL-CIO pushed, the Chamber backed off.
Should the Billionaire Club Start Paying Dues
Austerity budgets are spreading everywhere, but wealth, new data show, has become more concentrated at the global economic summit than ever before. From Cairo to Palo Alto, even some conservatives are now talking wealth tax.
Romney Makes a Stealth Attack On Elderly Americans While His Money Spies on the Chinese
Question: What are the connecting threads between these two recent Mitt Romney news items - the announcement that he's not enrolling in Medicare, and the revelation that Bain Capital helped him make money helping the Chinese government spy on its people?
Answer: They're both covert attacks on innocent civilians, and they're both based on Romney's own deceptions.
Listen Up AARP Weve Heard Enough About Cutting Social Security
A report today in The Huffington Post that the AARP is organizing a "salon" dominated by supporters of cuts to Social Security benefits—as part of a larger "listening tour"—has advocates for preserving Social Security hopping mad.
At CPAC Romneys Calls for Cutting Social Security and Medicare Rankle Conservative Rank-and-File
Social Security Works spoke to several conservatives at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) this past Friday, who were none too pleased to hear Mitt Romney he plans to cut Social Security and Medicare.
Fixing What Is Wrong With Our Economy
The following is an official statement from the AFL-CIO Executive Council.
War On Women Part III The Real Reason Conservatives Hate The Violence Against Women Act
First they came for the women who use contraception, and sought to deny them insurance coverage.
Then they came for the women seeking abortions, and sought to force them to have ultrasounds.
Progressive Breakfast - 3/16/2012
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: Not Just Goldman Sachs
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.
