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Progressive Breakfast - 10/25/2011
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: Republicans Say,...
The Dream that Drives the Occupations
I’ve been spending evenings and weekends recently with the Occupy protestors in DC. I can’t stay full time because, unlike many protestors, I have two children and a full-time job. But I clearly share their interests and I’m glad they’re making the ruckus. Our economy...
A Fire Sale For Arsonists The Revised Bank Mortgage Settlement Still Stinks
Imagine that a group of arsonists was terrorizing your town. First they'd buy insurance on a stranger's home, then they'd show up with a blowtorch and a tanker truck filled with gasoline and burn the place down. Imagine that they've burned down a thousand homes this...
The Structural Racism Herman Cain Ignores Our Color-Coded Economy
Former Godfather's Pizza CEO Herman Cain's comment a couple of weeks ago that "I don't believe racism in this country today holds anybody back in a big way" didn't cause much of a national stir when he made it. Why would it, when a mixed-race African American is...
The Tea Party to Businesses Stop Hiring Story Takes Off
The "Tea Party To Businesses: 'Stop Hiring!'" story has really taken off. Even Stephen Colbert has covered it. The Colbert Report Get More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,Video Archive I didn't get to be on "The Colbert Show"...
Playing The Refs With Skill And Cash
Wall Street may be metaphorically beating mean old President Obama with a stick for calling them (sniff) fat cats, but they are offering him plenty of carrots to soothe the pain: Despite frosty relations with the titans of Wall Street, President Obama has still...
The 99 Seek a Just Economy Not Just an Economy
Republicans jammed together a mess of old, failed and vague schemes and called it a jobs bill. Sen. John McCain conceded the reason for the rehash: “Part of it is in response to the president saying we don’t have a proposal.” They still don’t. This despite the fact...
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: Beware Elites...
Progressive Breakfast - 10/24/2011
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: Beware Elites...
The Landmark Tax Reform that Fizzled
Sam Pizzigati edits Too Much, the online weekly on excess and inequality published by the Washington, D.C.-based Institute for Policy Studies, where the following originally appeared. Can a small army of policy wonks, working in a bipartisan political environment...
