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Elder Poverty and a GOP Sucker Punch - NOW Will Democrats Pledge to Defend Social Security
Here are three things to consider: Nearly one American in six over the age of 65 lives in poverty. A newly progressivized Barack Obama is rocking the populist bandwagon from Osawatomie to the Oval Office. And the Republicans have started attacking Democrats on Social...
Republican Sen Michael Enzi Let Employers Discriminate
Republican Sen. Michael Enzi says it should be perfectly legal for a business to engage in employment discrimination against a person who is unemployed. Enzi, the Wyoming senator who is the ranking Republican on the Health, Education Labor and Pensions Committee, let...
Senate Republicans Stand With Wall Street
"Which side are you on?" That question, posed by Florence Reece in a pro-union song she wrote in 1931, echoes across the country today, in the form of the Occupy Wall Street movement, and demonstrations like Take Back the Capital this week. Millions of Americans...
Verizon Fires 40 Workers From Strike
Verizon has fired 40 workers who took part in the strike this summer, saying they engaged in misconduct. Union leaders say this is a "heavy-handed" negotiating tactic to push for concessions at the bargaining table. At the AFL-CIO Blog, Unions Fight Verizon’s Firings...
Poverty On the Rise - Occupy On the Run [TV interview]
Yesterday on RT Television we discussed the latest poverty figures, the increasingly visible camps of homeless people, and the nationwide crackdown on the Occupy movement. How do we keep the pressure on Washington to address economic issues? What's next for the...
The Banker Gangs Are Still On the Loose and the Justice Department Still Wont Come Clean
No financial executives have gone to jail, despite an overwhelming body of evidence indicating that a group of organized "banker gangs" conducted a widespread Wall Street crime wave that made them rich and while throwing millions into poverty. The Justice Department's...
Republicans Reformers Open New Fronts In The War On Childhood
Normally, it would be apparent to all that Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich forgot the first rule of holes when he recently doubled-down on his proposal to solve the problem of poor urban schools by recruiting impoverished children into the janitorial...
Progressive Breakfast - 12/8/2011
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: 99% March On K...
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: 99% March On K...
Verizons Workers Strike Back At Corporate Greed -- You Can Join Them
The reason you see so many cellphone stores and ads everywhere is because wireless is a very lucrative business. Wireless companies are pulling in billions and their executives are raking in the bucks. But they are also squeezing their workers, their customers and our...
