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What Those NLRB And CFPB Recess Appointments Mean To You
In January the President sidestepped Republican obstruction and made "recess appointments" to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). This was because Senate Republicans were blocking all nominations
False Facts And Twisted Logic
Think Progress tweeted this chart, writing: "FACT: Under Obama, government is shrinking. There are 598K fewer gov't jobs today than there were in January 2008."
The Health Care Public Option An Idea Whose Time Had Come
FIGHTING FOR OUR HEALTH
How Many Lives Does the Health Care Reform Cat Have Left
FIGHTING FOR OUR HEALTH
Get Ready For The Edu-Debt Crisis
This week the US House of Representatives, with bipartisan support, passed a bill, H.R. 2117, with the misleading title of The Protecting Academic Freedom in Higher Education Act.
Progressive Breakfast - 3/2/2012
MORNING MESSAGE: Who Is Keeping DeMarco In Charge Of Housing?
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: Who Is Keeping DeMarco In Charge Of Housing?
The 28 Billion Dollar Man Is Sen Shelby The Most Fiscally Irresponsible Politician Ever
Republicans love to say that nothing's more important cutting the Federal deficit. So why is Sen. Richard Shelby wasting $28 billion of taxpayer money? Shelby's used parliamentary tricks to put more than half of the nation's mortgages under the rule of an unelected official who answers to no one - except apparently Richard Shelby - whose wasting money like it's going out of style.
Good Jobs First: No Grand Bargain Without A Jobs Trigger
What we have here is a failure to communicate. Poll after poll shows that voters are concerned most of all about jobs and the economy. Yet in Washington and on the campaign trail, attention has turned to deficits and how to get our books in order.
Free Trade Or Democracy, Can't Have Both
Recent stories about the conditions of Apple's contractors in China have opened many people's eyes about where our jobs, factories, industries and economy have been going, and why.
