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Do You Know An Unsung Progressive Hero Maria Leavey Tribute Nominations Are Now Open
It's time for nominations for the Maria Leavey Tribute Award. If you know someone who deserves this award, please nominate them! This annual award honors an unsung hero of the progressive movement whose behind-the-scenes work and selfless service has made a major contribution to social justice.
Its Time To Pass The Call-Center Bill
There is a bipartisan bill in the Congress that regulates call centers, names companies that move jobs out of the country, gives customers the right to talk to Americans if they are having trouble understanding the support representative, protects private information that you give to the representative and bans federal grants or guaranteed loans to American companies that move call center jobs out
Progressive Breakfast - 3/7/2012
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: The Eight New Positions Romney Took To Win Over Republicans
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: The Eight New Positions Romney Took To Win Over Republicans
War Without End Hoyer Wont Stop Fighting Against Seniors … and the American People
Can't stop, won't stop. House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer is determined to advance his own career at the expense of middle-class Americans - so much so that he's ignoring political common sense and the desires of most Americans, including most Republicans.
Taxes Were Cut So Wheres The Growth
Conservatives and plutocrats claim that cutting taxes makes the economy grow. But after 'W' cut taxes, the economy didn't grow. And after Clinton raised taxes on the rich the economy grew a lot. Maybe - just maybe - having a government that is funded and functioning helps the economy grow more than handing over a bunch of cash to the rich does. Go figure.
The Eight New Positions Romney Took To Win Over Republicans
They don't call it "Super Tuesday" for nothing. Ten states hold primary elections, and results can make or break a candidate who has made it this far. Even when the results aren't all that "super" for any one candidate, the contest can be a defining moment for the candidate who's still standing when the dust settles.
Dear Mitt Romney As One Father of a Daughter to Another How Could You
I've got a daughter who's about the same age as Sandra Fluke, went to law school with her and worked wit her Georgetown's Law Students for Reproductive Rights group. So I want to ask a simple question of Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney, both of whom are also the fathers of daughers. It's a simple question, really:
How could you?
Flip-Flop-Flip: Now Romney Ends Up On Wrong Side Of Minimum Wage Flip-Flop
In January I called attention to the work of our former colleague Anne Thompson, who captured video of presidential candidate Mitt Romney saying that he supported ensuring that the minimum wage kept pace with inflation.
99 Spring April 9-15
Non-violent direct action.
Last month I wrote in, You Should Know About The "99% Spring",
Action Coming -- Spread The Word!
This is a Big Deal, just look at end of this post for the list of organizations that are signed on to this so far - and more coming.
