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We Dont Need a Messiah We Have a Movement
Van Jones put to rest the notion of a divided Left, as he kicked off the Take Back the American Dream conference today. Noting the wide-ranging feelings about President Barack Obama among the thousands attending the conference, Jones said: "Some people love the...
Progressive Breakfast - 10/3/2011
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: Saving The Dream...
Is The Tea Party Over Maybe
It's always struck me as odd that the media could portray the tea party as a "grassroots movement." From its corporate origins on CNBC to its corporate PR backing and its even more corporate agenda, not much about it has ever seemed grassroots to me. Odder still was...
The Empty Promise of Pay for Performance
Pundits and politicians love to righteously denounce the windfall rewards that go to corporate CEOs who 'fail.' But windfalls for CEOs who 'perform,' researchers suggest, ought to worry us far more. Leo Apotheker, the just-axed CEO at computer giant Hewlett-Packard,...
Actual Enforcement Of Actual Laws Is It Possible
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is back to work, and for the first time in years has started doing its job. This is a shock to anti-government corporate conservatives, and teaches a lesson about just why they are anti-government. A functioning government in...
Palin and Boeing CEO Tell Government Who The Boss Is
What can a democracy like ours do when giant companies say, "Rules? We don’t need no stinkin’ rules! We don’t got to pay you no taxes!" and "We will just move out of your puny country if you try to tell us what to do." Government is beginning to enforce labor laws...
Conservative War On Workers Continues With Gutting Of Labor Board
House conservatives today threw another grenade today in their war on workers and the institutions designed to protect worker rights. They also continued to show their willingness to politically interfere in an administrative law process to impose their ideology and...
CorporateConservative Heads Explode As NLRB Actually Enforces Law
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is engaging in legal action against Boeing and is threatening to sue Arizona, South Carolina, South Dakota, and Utah for anti-union activities. It has been so long since the NLRB was willing and able to engage on the side of...
NLRB v Boeing Corporations Fear Law Itself
The National Labor Relations Board is attempting to enforce our country's laws and the corporate conservatives are going nuts - literally. They are challenging the concept of law itself, while making wild claims of conspiracies by government against business itself....
Personal Incomes Drop Economy Needs An Intervention
We knew from the the Labor Department's awful jobs report for August that today’s Bureau of Economic Analysis report on personal income would show a sharp decline. It does. Even with a sharp decline in tax payments, total real disposable incomes fell 0.3% in August...
