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A Deficit Pitch Without Social Security--The Only Chance of Winning
This past Friday night in Washington, a New York Mets pitcher threw the type of pitch President Obama must use in his march to stop any new proposals to cut Social Security if he plans to make it through the game of the deficit talks and his reelection. In the recent...
Progressive Breakfast - 9/7/2011
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: Romney "Jobs" Plan...
American Dream Movement and Contract Alive And Well And ACTIVE
Have you heard any news in the major corporate media about the Contract For The American Dream, from The American Dream Movement? Probably not. And this means you probably didn't know there were over 400 protests in 32 different states against 85 members of Congress...
Washington Against Heroes The Washington Post Attacks Eric Schneiderman
There's no better barometer of Washington's debased values and historical blindness than the Washington Post, that trade paper of the professional governing class. Today it attacked Eric Schneiderman, the New York Attorney General taking a brave stand against a cushy...
Local Jobs For America Act Is Back
One development on the jobs front that received far less attention than it deserved was California Rep. George Miller's reintroduction last week of his "Local Jobs for America Act," a proposal that we vigorously supported and that received the backing of more than 300...
Why Inequality is the Real Cause of Our Ongoing Terrible Economy
Robert Reich will be a featured speaker at the Take Back the American Dream conference, convening in Washington D.C., from October 3 to 5. THE 5 percent of Americans with the highest incomes now account for 37 percent of all consumer purchases, according to the latest...
Progressive Breakfast - 9/6/2011
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: A Five-Point Jobs...
Can Anyone Tackle Our Tax-Dodging CEOs
A new report from the Institute for Policy Studies documents how America's top corporate execs are stiffing Uncle Sam — and lavishly lining their own pockets in the process. Sarah Anderson, a veteran analyst at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C., has...
Its Getting Ugly Again
Today’s Bureau of Labor Statistics report on U.S. jobs in August shows not only that no new jobs were created in August – zero change – but it also revises down the number of jobs in June and July, mostly due to worse than previously estimated cuts in state and local...
The Recession Returns
Zero -- nada -- 0 -- jobs added in August. Hourly wages down. Average work weeks down. The recession returns. This was predictable and predicted. Conservatives -- in both parties -- have it wrong once more. Government cuts in a weak economy cost jobs and sap growth....
