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Starve The Beast II The Boehner Plan For Perpetual Debt Crisis
There's not a whole lot of difference between the proposals from Speaker John Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. The amount of new cuts is about the same, though the Senate proposal looks bigger because it (properly) includes savings from the war drawdowns...
New Major Poll Shows Again That Voters Want JOBS Not Deficit Reduction -- Will DC Listen To The Public
In the middle of the DC frenzy over a contrived "debt crisis" a new, major poll shows what other polls have shown: voters want Washington to act on jobs (and jobs fix deficits), especially in manufacturing, but don't think that our elected officials are paying...
House GOP Leaders Rally Caucus To Hurt Some People
How do you fire up a crowd of congressional Republicans to get them to blindly cast really really bad votes? Easy, just show them a clip from a violent movie! HELL YEAH!! Last night the GOP did just that at their closed-door caucus meeting. The movie of choice was...
Progressive Breakfast - 7/28/2011
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 The GOP Aims...
Right Wings Job Training Cuts Shuts Doors To Millions Of Jobs
Even with an unemployment rate of 9.2%, the United States is unlikely be able to fill a projected 2.8 million science, technology, economy and manufacturing jobs that will be created by 2018. The problem? There will not be enough qualified people. Secretary of Labor...
Please Dont Roll Out This School Reform
Ask yourself if this is the type of school you'd like for your son or daughter: * At one charter school, an array of 48 "infractions"-- such as "Lying/falsehood” and "Sleeping in class" -- will get students suspended or expelled. * At another charter, students and...
This Is Our Moment
Rep. Keith Ellison is the co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, and will be a featured speaker at the Take Back the American Dream conference, being held in Washington, DC from October 3 to 5. The following originally appeared at The Huffington Post....
The Dark Side of Deregulation The Fight for America’s Health
Last week, in our series “Ignorance Index: Conservative Dogma Vs. The Facts,” Campaign for America’s Future’s Co-Director Robert Borosage eviscerated the logic (or lack thereof) that Republicans have used for years to justify the rapid deregulation of business. The...
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: Grassroots vs. The...
Progressive Breakfast - 7/27/2011
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: Grassroots vs. The...
