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Death By 1000 Medicaid Cuts
TAKE ACTION. Tell Vice-President Biden: No Bad Deals. No Cuts to Medicaid, Medicare or Social Security. Budget-cutting can be a bloody business, depending upon where and how deeply one cuts. It can be a deadly business too. Not for the budget-cutters, though. That's...
Progressive Breakfast - 6/17/2011
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: Mr....
Mr Vice-President No Bad Deals No Cuts to Social Security Medicare & Medicaid
Send The Vice-President A Message: Stand With The American Majority. Reject Republican Cuts To Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. Republicans are holding the economy hostage again, threatening to destroy America's credit rating so they can get brutal cuts in...
Hutchison and Sessions Attempt to Kill Social Security
Retiring U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-No Shame, TX) today unveiled a plan to steal Social Security from Americans by cutting their benefits and lying to them about it. In a release and fact sheet with more holes than a piece of swiss cheese in front of Dick...
Manufacturing Panel At Netroots Nation -- Submit Questions
I am participating on a panel tomorrow at Netroots Nation, Revitalizing Manufacturing: The Road to Renewed Job Growth. Please click here to submit questions for the Q&A session. The panel: FRIDAY, JUNE 17TH 3:00 PM - 4:15 PM The prospects of the U.S. innovating our...
Atlas Slumped
Like all of you I'm sure, I'm deeply concerned about the revelations that emails were exchanged between Anthony Weiner and a porn star and what that all means for the future of the Republic. (Thankfully, she's finally weighed in on whether or not he should resign for...
Growing Movement For Afghanistan Drawdown Sends Message To The White House
The Campaign for America's Future released the following statement after joining with several progressive allies for a successful petition drive calling for a rapid military withdrawal from Afghanistan. *** The Campaign for America’s Future, MoveOn.Org, CREDO, Brave...
Progressive Breakfast - 6/16/2011
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: Buy American Jobs...
Buy American Jobs
Efforts by those who never want to hear someone say, “Bye-bye American manufacturing,” converged coincidentally to make June Buy American month. First, at the forceful urging of U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, the Smithsonian on June 8 opened an all-American-made...
Chart o the Day Workers Share of National Income
Workers’ share of U.S, national income is collapsing: David Frum asks: Two questions for the Republican presidential candidates: 1) Is this a problem? 2) If yes, what can be done about it? I'd want to ask the Democratic presidential candidate he same thing. But I'm...
