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Progressive Breakfast - 6/27/2011
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: Good Jobs Tour...
Americas Economy Held Hostage — To Save A Private Jet Tax Break
To start your weekend on a boiling mad note, read what Talking Points Memo published this afternoon regarding the details of why Republicans bolted Thursday from the deficit-reduction talks being conducted by Vice President Joe Biden: Democrats want to close tax...
Its Walmarts World Pt 2
The Supreme Court's Dukes vs. Walmart, raising the bar for plaintiffs in class action suits, means workers who already have it bad in this economy probably won't have it any better, and won't be able to do much about it. Can't Win. Don't Try. The lesson Betty Dukes...
President Announces 500M High-Tech Manufacturing Incentive
President Obama today announced a new Advanced Manufacturing Partnership that will bring together industry, universities and the federal government to invest in emerging technologies. This is nuts-and-bolts government work, to help American manufacturing and American...
The Front Line Of The Middle-Class Struggle Helping Others Cope While Coping With A Pay Cut
A packed Senate hearing room sat quietly, slowly leaning in to catch the grief-stricken testimony of Amanda Greubel. “I’ve sat with parents as they completed the eligibility application [for free or reduced lunch], held their hands as they’ve shed tears of shame,” she...
Progressive Breakfast - 6/24/2011
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: The Selling of...
Manufacturing Policy Hearing Republicans Corps Say Taxes Regulations Government Democracy Bad
I watched a Congressional hearing yesterday (webcast), examining why we need a national industrial strategy. There were a few pro-manufacturing voices. But in a surprise move, Republicans and representatives of Wall Street & giant multinationals opposed such a policy...
Dereliction of Duty At The Fed And Inside Congress
The Federal Reserve and its chairman, Ben Bernanke, should not be allowed to get away with what they did on Wednesday. What they did at the end of their Open Market Committee meeting was to essentially throw up their hands in the face of their legal responsibility to...
Public Educations Shock Doctrine Summer Rolls Out
As American public education arrives at the summer of its discontent, we have to contemplate how a system that has already had over 201,600 jobs wrung from its payrolls since August 2008 will handle the prospect of having to shed nearly a quarter of a million more...
Its Walmarts World Pt 1
It's Walmart's world, and the rest of us are just living in it. That seems to be the take away from the Supreme Court's ruling in Duke v. Walmart. The court ruled on a narrow aspect of the case, but the decision has broad and foreboding implications for workers,...
