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Inside the Corrupt Process
It looks like it won't only be the Republicans who take "Obamacare" apart piece by piece. This article in the Washington Monthly gives us a glimpse behind the curtain of bipartisan corruption --- and spells out why making "deals" with industry is no deal at all: As it...
Medicaid and the Myth of GOP Cost Cuts
In the first post in this series, I noted that in the "Path to Prosperity" — which Republicans approved unanimously — Rep. Paul Ryan cited Medicaid as one of the biggest drivers of our national debt. The Republican budget formerly known as the Ryan budget,...
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: Conservatives...
Progressive Breakfast - 6/21/2011
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: Conservatives...
Source of Missing Jobs in America Found Forced Laborers
With unemployment at a near historic high in the United States, could you imagine any American company bringing in foreign workers to work for them below the minimum wage and with no benefits? Most people would say no. But can you imagine those same Americans forcing...
Why Conservatives Punish Their Victims A Lesson From Arizona
So far from God, so close to the Republican National Committee When some Simpsons characters took refuge in the local church after a hurricane, the church marquee read "God welcomes his victims." With that invitation, Reverend Lovejoy (an underrated Simpsons character...
National Speakout for Good Jobs Tour
The ProgressiveCongress.org and the Congressional Progressive Caucus launched the Speakout for Good Jobs Tour in Minneapolis Saturday. They will hold Speakout events in 11 cities across the country. This is a major opportunity to build public awareness that leads to...
To Smear NLRB Top GOPer Attacks Judicial Principles Of Our Founding Fathers
Conservatives are in a froth because the National Labor Relations Board attorneys are merely pursuing a legal case against Boeing for shifting plans for a new factory to a state with weak labor laws to blunt the ability of its unionized to go on strike. Last week,...
Progressive Breakfast - 6/20/2011
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 Fight-Back...
Gap Be Gone A Locality Takes on Inequality
Amid fierce fiscal austerity, a borough in London is doing battle to level up the poor and level down the rich. Imagine if a borough in New York tried something as ambitious. In the United States and Britain, the developed world’s two most unequal major nations, you...
