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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: Top Pol Breaks Ranks On Taxing Rich
On Taxing the Rich a Top Pol Breaks Ranks
A tax-the-rich bombshell has dropped in the presidential race. The French presidential race. But this bombshell’s blast will almost certainly reverberate elsewhere. Maybe even in the United States.
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.
