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Job Creators Who Wont Hire The Unemployed

As President Obama hits the road on his jobs agenda bus tour, millions of individuals trying to re-enter the job market, seeking to eke out a modest living so that they too can live the American Dream – or what’s left of it anyway – are stuck in a rut. They write...

Everything You Need To Know About Fixing Deficits & Jobs

Here is everything you need to know about how to fix the deficits and jobs problems. This is a chart of job creation over the last few years: There is a report in Saturday's New York Times, "White House Debates Fight on Economy," saying the Obama administration is...

Progressive Breakfast - 8/15/2011

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: Why Pawlenty Went...

Why Pawlenty Went Bust

In 2007, I attended the biggest conservative annual confab, CPAC. One speaker after another tried to outdo each other for the biggest tall tale, the loudest embrace of Reagan or the most outrageous slander of liberals. But one speaker sought to challenge conservative...

Look Out Here Comes the ‘Feral Underclass’

What made last week's rioting in London all the more 'achingly sad'? The rioters weren't challenging greed. They were celebrating it. We really need to understand why. Oppressed people riot. Oppression and rioting have gone together for millennia. But the young...

Newt Does It Again

It's come to this. As much as it pains me to say it, I wish we had more Republicans who think like Newt Gingrich. It pains me even more to say this, but I wish we had more Democrats who like Newt Gingrich. Ah, but I should be more specific. I wish we had more...

Austeridiocy Budget Cuts Take Money Out Of The Economy

"The patient is sicker so we have to apply more leeches." Countries that are trying to fix deficits with spending cuts are finding out that taking money out of their economies by cutting government is slowing their economies. Duh! Imagine that! So instead of cutting...

Shiny Happy Corporate People

Mitt Romney got a lot of press for telling a heckler at the Iowa State Fair that "corporations are people." He did not go on to sing that Patti Smith song, People Have the Power. But corporate "people" certainly do. Their power was on display this week, both in...

Progressive Breakfast - 8/12/2011

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: Super Committee of...

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