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Do Plutocrats Need to Worry about Potholes
One luxury automaker is betting big that America's affluent feel no responsibility to the greater society crumbling all around them. And lots of pols are making the same wager. Audi, the luxury automaker, has a new ad campaign out. You may have seen the TV spot. The...
Explaining Ten Years of War to a Child
This week, my eight-year-old son asked me a couple of questions about the war in Afghanistan. They were simple questions. Yet, both times I struggled to answer. The first question came out of the blue. "Dad," he asked me, "Why did we go to war in Afghanistan?" I had...
Whats Next For The American Dream Movement
As the last full day of the Take Back the American Dream conference ended, the "Building the Progressive Movement: What Should We Do Next?" action strategy session posed the question that was probably on the minds of many attendees: What should we do next? The...
Jobs Numbers Send SOS To Washington Act Now
The September 2011 jobs numbers continue to send an SOS to Washington to act now on jobs. This economy verges on another downturn. The few jobs being created are not sufficient even to employ the new people coming into workforce, much less to begin to reduce the 25...
Years of Discontent Trigger American Autumn
To convey the significance of the Occupy Wall Street movement, NBC News anchor Brian Williams this week quoted the 1960s Buffalo Springfield song, For What It’s Worth: “There is something happening here. What it is ain't exactly clear.” Maybe it’s unclear what the...
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: Demanding Justice...
Progressive Breakfast - 10/7/2011
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: Demanding Justice...
Roger Hickey on Dylan Ratigan We Need Jobs to Rebuild the American Dream
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Co-director Roger Hickey appeared on the Dylan Ratigan Show Tuesday to discuss the influence of big money in politics and whether progressives could find common cause with tea party activists on...
It Is Time To Keep Marching To Take Back Americas Dream
So tell me is this fair? We've got worker's rights in the air, and Congress hasn't put one jobs bill there. What's up, Boehner? Now I catch feeling that you don't even care about a debt ceiling. The only thing our Congress is doing is working to bring women's rights...
Courtney Foley Wins The Maria Leavey Award
Courtney Foley, the Starkville, Miss. native responsible for making sure that a referendum to bring down an anti-worker bill in Ohio qualifies for the ballot, received this year's Maria Leavey Tribute Award at the Take Back the American Dream conference on Wednesday....
