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Oakland Occupied -- Will Washington Listen At Last
It was an amazing thing to be part of, an entire city downtown occupied, then a huge march that shut down a major port. Oakland was #occupied! This was a game changer, a turning point. What happened in Oakland was a very big deal. On the same Wednesday there were big,...
Battle of the Populists
Democracy Corps has been doing some focus groups on the economy. You have to take them as they're presented, since the test messages in themselves reveal a certain agenda, but it's informative nonetheless: Voters are receptive to Republicans when they make statements...
Wall Street's War Against The Real Economy & We, The People
At a meeting with bloggers before last week's Building The New Economy conference, AFL-CIO President Rich Trumka talked about how we have developed two economies, one real and one financial. As he said, originally the financial sector was designed to support the real...
Progressive Breakfast - 11/4/2011
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: Jobs Report:...
Robin Hood Tax Gains Ground at the G-20
The G-20 meeting in Cannes got underway yesterday. The sunny beach resort, playground to movie stars and media moguls was an odd choice for a somber G-20 meeting. As President Obama and Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner touched down in Air Force One, the Greek...
Jobs Report Unemployed Paying The Price of Obstruction
On the morning after Senate Republicans blocked consideration of an infrastructure jobs bill, the Bureau of Labor Statistics is reporting that the economy created only 80,000 net jobs during the month of September. The unemployment rate is now 9 percent. The continued...
Conservatives Ring Up Another No Vote On Jobs
A conservative minority in the Senate earlier today voted against allowing an infrastructure jobs bill to come to a floor vote, continuing a pattern of obstruction that has blocked every significant effort to get people working on the jobs that need to be done. The...
For Our Top Corporate 1 Percenters a 50 Percent Tax Discount
The power suits who run America's biggest corporations, a new Citizens for Tax Justice report shows, are sidestepping about half the taxes our basic tax code says they ought to be paying. Over a quarter century ago, in 1984, the Washington, D.C.-based Citizens for Tax...
Super Committee Dems Hands Off Medicare and Social Security [VIDEO]
Last night, The Thom Hartmann Show hosted Roger Hickey, who delivered a warning to the Democrats of the "Super Committee" who are threatening to cut Social Security and Medicare benefits, that they are risking their electoral chances in 2012. Watch it below.
Sacrifice Scam
Oh spare me: To underscore the fact that GOP’s intransigence on taxes is the source of the gridlock, the committee’s Democratic co-chair confirmed that Democrats are willing to make the sort of deep cuts to entitlement programs Republicans are demanding — but only if...
