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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: Today's Big Idea...
On a Rogue Billionaire the Banging Begins
Investor Warren Buffett last week made an insightful case for higher taxes on America's rich. The reaction to that case, from our wealthy's most ardent defenders, offers insights, too — on our plutocracy. In the United States today, phenomenally rich people pay a...
The Jobs Question
President Obama is, in the lingo of the day, “pivoting to jobs.” His bus tour through the Midwest began the process, with the president recycling his current jobs-lite agenda: payroll tax cut extended, infrastructure bank, trade deals, tax cuts for companies that hire...
Jobs Picture Is Worse Than You Think Employment Is Down In Every State
My analysis of today’s new Bureau of Labor Statistics July data on state employment and jobs suggests that current labor market weakness could be far worse than believed. The BLS sample survey of business and government Establishments shows 31 states, D.C. and the...
Mr President Don’t Cut Them Slack When They Threaten Us And Our Economy
Republican Presidential candidate Rick Perry, threatening Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke, over his efforts to boost the economy: “If this guy prints more money between now and the election, I dunno what y’all would do to him in Iowa but we would treat him pretty...
Progressive Breakfast - 8/19/2011
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: Today's Big Idea...
This Economy Needs a Little More Elvis a Lot Less Milton Friedman
The stock market's plunging as of this writing, as the global economy reels from the destructive consequences of austerity economics. Yet in Washington, politicians are moving full speed ahead in their determination to impose a rigorous new program of... austerity...
The President’s Bold Jobs Bill (Maybe)
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 following was originally published at RobertReich.com. The President is sounding like a fighter these days. He even says...
Progressive Breakfast - 8/18/2011
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: Today's Big Idea:...
Sweetening The Perry Beat
I am watching the D.C. press fall for Rick Perry's macho swagger right before my eyes. And Democrats won't do anything about it because it might offend someone who identifies with him, so it's likely to go on for a little while, especially if he solidifies as the...
