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Conservatives Should Be Called Out On Unfair Failed Policies
President Obama's address today on taxes and deficit reduction draws the broad contours of the economic reform argument exactly as they should be drawn, between a plan that calls for "shared sacrifice" to be actually shared by all rather than imposed on the...
Obama Deficit Speech - What My Wife Heard
I watched President Obama's "deficit speech" this morning. My wife was listening from another room. She does not follow politics as closely as you and I do. The only thing she heard was "Medicare cuts." Why was Medicare in a speech about raising taxes on the rich?...
Gitcher Voter Suppression History Right Here
I have a piece up about GOP vote suppression at Al Jazeera today: In the 1964 presidential elections, a young political operative named Bill guarded a largely African-American polling place in South Phoenix, Arizona like a bull mastiff. Bill was a legal whiz who knew...
Obama Rejects Medicare Age Increase Stresses Jobs Fair Taxes
The Wall Street Journal and other media are reporting definitively on the Obama deficit plan to be announced on Monday. The big news: the President will not propose raising the Medicare eligibility age. So the millions of older workers and unemployed people now...
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: Obama Rejects...
Progressive Breakfast - 9/19/2011
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: Obama Rejects...
Five Super-Congress Debt-Cutting Myths
Ten years ago the country was on track to pay off the entire national debt in ... ten years. But then... So President Bush left behind a $1.4 trillion budget deficit, and now under President Obama the same Republicans who created the deficits are all terribly,...
A Riddle that Brings Joy to Mega Rich Hearts
The Census won't count it. The IRS won't tax it, at anywhere near full freight. What is it? It's enough, all by itself, to keep grand fortunes constantly soaring. Can we start the century over? Economically, new Census Bureau income stats released last week suggest,...
That Was The Week That Was
This came out Thursday, but it was so depressing that I didn't want to post it: The number of people applying for unemployment benefits jumped last week to the highest level in three months. It's a sign that the job market remains depressed. The Labor...
Look Whos Soured on Economic Inequality
Mainstream economists all around the world used to assume that equality acted as a drag on economic growth and development. Not anymore, as new International Monetary Fund analyses make quite clear. U.S. politicos, of course, have yet to catch up to the new global...
