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Rebuilding The Dream This Is OUR Time
On June 23, Van Jones, and a broad cross section of progressive groups launched the Rebuild the Dream Movement. This is a movement of necessity: the American Dream – the dream of being able to reap the benefits from hard work, raise a family, and live with dignity –...
Conrad’s 50-50 Proposal Is a Good Sign
The following is an statement distributed to the news media earlier today. You can call on your representatives in Congress to support a deficit reduction plan based on "shared sacrifice" and a 50-50 split between spending cuts and tax increases on the wealthy by...
The Debt Deal Trojan Horse And The Elephant In The Room
Don't look now, but someone rolled a Trojan Horse right into the middle of the debt deal negotiations. Funny thing is, Democrats don't seem to recognize it as such. Maybe nobody's ever told them the story of the Trojan Horse. The good news is that there are no Greek...
The Debt Deal Operation Conditional Surrender
So, just when it looked like President Obama was finally calling the GOP's bluff debt ceiling negotiations, it turns out he was preparing to fold. Obama administration officials are offering to cut tens of billions of dollars from Medicare and Medicaid in negotiations...
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: Why Won't...
Progressive Breakfast - 7/6/2011
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: Why Won't...
Giving Away The Argument
The latest pas de deux: Obama administration officials are offering to cut tens of billions of dollars from Medicare and Medicaid in negotiations to reduce the federal budget deficit, but the depth of the cuts depends on whether Republicans are willing to accept any...
Boehner Math The Bush Tax Cuts Cost 500000 Per Job
Today, Speaker Boehner promoted a statistic concocted by the Weekly Standard claiming that President Obama's Recovery Act (aka "the stimulus") cost $278,000 per job. The stat is simply the overall cost of the Recovery Act, both the government spending and the tax...
Government Getting People Working On Better Buildings
For years people have been asking why we don’t launch a national effort to save energy and create jobs by retrofitting buildings to be more energy-efficient. Last week I wrote that even simple things, like painting roofs white can save energy and employ a lot of...
Minimum Wage Not to Blame for Teen Unemployment
In his latest attack on the minimum wage,Casey Mulligan charges in his NYT Economix post that the 2007-2009 minimum wage increases are adding to teen unemployment. He writes that “Many teenagers cannot find work this summer, victims of a weak economy and a situation...
