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Build a Better Budget Send Your Priorities To Congress Today
Jo Comerford, executive director of National Priorities Project, will speak on "War Costs: The Afghanistan War and the Price of U.S. Militarism" at the Oct. 3-5 Take Back at American Dream conference. Right now our elected officials are trying to balance the federal...
Hold On To Your Hats The American Autumn Starts Monday with Take Back the American Dream
Last night on MSNBC's "The Last Word," American Dream movement leader Van Jones discussed the Oct. 3-5 Take Back the American Dream conference. Watch the video and read the excerpts below. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy I...
Progressive Breakfast - 9/30/2011
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: Time To "Take Back...
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: Time To "Take Back...
What Should Progressives Do About the President
Progressives may sometimes feel like they're in a backdoor high-school affair with the President. You know the kind: The popular kid will make out with someone from the wrong side of the tracks. But he'll only take a rich kid from "the right kind of family" to the...
China Currency Fight In Congress
The fight to get China to stop their currency manipulation is heating up. China keeps its currency very low, giving their goods a huge price advantage even before all their other trade manipulations come into play. This costs us jobs, factories, companies and entire...
Occupy This TV Interview On the Economy and the #OccupyWallStreet Protests
The other day we spoke to RT Television about our search for the #OccupyWallStreet demonstrations in a lower Manhattan that almost felt as if it were under military siege. That led to a conversation about the protests -- what they're protesting, the importance...
Progressive Breakfast - 9/29/2011
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: Killing The Dream...
The High Cost of Low Wages
Republicans have cooled on Texas governor Rick Perry as their great white hope for 2012, but their desire to make the rest of the country look more like Texas — economically, that is — hasn't. In fact, it's hotter than ever. Despite the fact that Texas leads the...
Buy American At The Take Back The American Dream Conference
At next week's Take Back The American Dream conference I'm on the Tuesday panel titled Strategy on State Level for Buy America Campaign. Please stop by if you are at the conference. Buy American in government procurement is not a partisan issue. Polls show that people...
