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Progressive Breakfast - 6/7/2011
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: 5 Progressive Tax...
A Call from Labor Ban Big Bank Stock Options
Federal agencies are now preparing new regulations for enforcing the Dodd-Frank banker pay reforms enacted last summer. These new regs, says the AFL-CIO, need to prohibit the 'incentive' that's still stuffing bankers with billions. If you wear a power suit to work...
10 Years Since Bush Tax Cuts Do We Even Remember Peace And Prosperity
It is 10 years since the Bush tax cuts passed. When Bush took office (and never forget the Supreme Court's 5-4 role in that) The Onion famously declared, “Our long national nightmare of peace and prosperity is finally over.” They had no way to know how prescient they...
Take The Blindfold Off The Tax Debate
There’s been a great deal of talk about tax reform recently. However, much of it has been, as Representative Sander Levin, D-Mich., put it on Friday, “discussed only in glittering generalities” that distort reality. At a time when the middle class is saddled...
No Pivot
In light of ongoing tepid job growth, Jared Bernstein had some good advice for the White House the other day: Someone just asked me, “how does the White House pivot from targeting deficits to targeting jobs?” How’s this? “Based on new information, we are now pivoting...
A Simple Plan To Fix The Jobs Emergency -- And The Economy Too
We have a jobs emergency. We have a stagnant economy. We are falling behind in economic competitiveness. We have developed a terrible concentration of income and wealth. We can address all of these at once. Robert Kuttner, writing in The Economic Relapse at the...
What You Should Know About What Republicans Want To Do To Medicaid
Stan Collender is right. The NY-26 election special election will change the budget debate. In fact, it already has. Democrat Kath Hochul's victory over Republican Jane Corwin, in a solidly Republican district, in special election that became a referendum on Rep. Paul...
Medicaid Its Not Just For Poor People
In my previous post, I covered what Republicans want to do to Medicaid. In this post, I intend to delve into why Republicans want to gut Medicaid. Republicans present their budget proposal as a solution to the "problems" of Medicaid and Medicare, which their...
Progressive Breakfast - 6/6/2011
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: 10 Years Of Bush...
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: 10 Years Of Bush...
