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New Republican Jobs Plan Really Is Different This Time Really
Senate Republicans have unveiled their new Jobs Through Growth Act. This time it's different. Read on and see why. Bill Scher, in this morning's News To Media: Republicans Have Not Answered Obama's Call For An Actual Jobs Plan, writes that the new jobs plan fails the...
What Are The Real Costs Of The Bush Tax Cuts Go To CostOfTaxCutsCom
$1,034,401,772,556. That’s the cost to the U.S. Treasury since 2001 from Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest 5 percent of Americans—as of the moment I started writing this blog post. National Priorities Project and Citizens for Tax Justice today released...
The White Republican Mind of Herman Cain
He will not be the GOP nominee, but Herman Cain is on a roll. In Cain, the GOP appears to have finally found it's "Great Black-or-Brown Hope." Bobby Jindal looked like a promising candidate for a hot minute or two, before his abysmal State of the Union response. Then...
News to Media Republicans Have Not Answered Obamas Call For An Actual Jobs Plan
One week after the President admonished Republicans for lacking a serious alternative to his American Jobs Act, Senate Republicans introduced what they call a "jobs" bill yesterday. ABC News, the Washington Post and others reported on this development as if this meant...
The Contract For The American Dream at the Take Back the American Dream Conference
The Take Back The American Dream conference opened Tuesday by discussing the Contract for the American Dream. Deepak Bhargava of the Center for Community Change began by saying that "there is a movement in America today and it’s not the Tea Party, it is the American...
Saving the Dream
Thousands rally to defend worker rights in Wisconsin, then nearly a million force a referendum in Ohio to repeal a similar assault. Tens of thousands fill congressional town meetings to demand "Jobs, not Cuts" in August. Over 100,000 join in vetting provisions for a...
Wisconsin and Ohio Resistance Rising
On Sunday, February 13, 2011, a few hundred union members gathered at the state capitol building in Madison, WI to confront Gov. Scott Walker over a bill designed to strip public employees of their right to organize. The next day, they were joined by over a thousand...
Jobs Not Cuts Rally at the Capitol
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Progressive Breakfast - 10/14/2011
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: After Trade Deals,...
The Week of Walking Backwards
As the Occupy Wall Street movement spread across the nation last week, politicians in D.C. flipped the bird at protesters – including those camping in Washington’s McPherson Square. Here’s how: While occupiers sought political focus on the unemployment, impoverishment...
