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First Step Toward A Win-Win
President Obama has taken a step in the right direction with his speech and jobs plan. It was a small step - but it has to be to present Republicans with the choice to cooperate or get pushed out of the way. If this passes it is a win for jobs and the economy -- and...
Take Back The Narrative At The Take Back The American Dream Conference
In two short years, we have gone from a nation hungry for change — to a nation with too many who are just hungry. Today, working and middle-class Americans are increasingly feeling as if no one is listening. How did we lose control of the conversation? How do we...
Our Own Private Disasters
Last month, in one week, the DC Metro Area was hit with an earthquake (5.9 on the Richter scale) and the remnants of Hurricane Irene. This week, we're being it with heavy rains (a month's rain in a week, according to the Baltimore Sun), from tropical storm Lee, and...
Progressive Breakfast - 9/9/2011
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: Jobs -- Action 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: Jobs -- Action Now...
Message To Obama No Half-Measures On Jobs
Today 68 major progressive organizations have sent a letter to President Obama urging him to present a "big, bold" jobs program to the nation in his anticipated post-Labor Day address. Some of the organizations signing the letter, while praising the...
Jobs Report Message Now Obama Has Zero Choice But To Go Bold On Jobs
Zero. That was the number of net jobs produced by the economy in August, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Zero is the number that looms above President Obama as he delivers his address Thursday to a joint session of Congress. The imperative for the...
This Labor Day America Wants To Work
This Labor Day, please join me in taking a little time to recognize the value of work and all who do it. It’s a time to honor the transit workers who get us where we need to go every day. The teachers who will spend their Labor Day getting classrooms ready for our...
Labor Day Is A Time To Act
Today's unemployment report, which shows zero net job creation and 14 million people officially unemployed, shows that the economy is dead in the water, and the focus on deficit reduction and austerity measures is systematically damaging employment and growth. Cuts to...
Labor Day A Day to Rest Remember and Act - For Entitlements and Jobs
Rest. A time of rest from long hours of work. That's the principle enshrined in Labor Day, a 125-year-old American holiday that celebrates the spirit of organized labor. It's the spirit behind the six-day workweek, too. A day of rest was enshrined in monotheism's holy...
