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The Global Millionaire Roll Showing No Slowing
From a top financial analyst group, new evidence that the human race, as a whole, has never been richer. So why are governments forcing austerity on so many of the world's peoples? “2010 was a damn good year,” Monish Kumar, a senior partner at the Boston Consulting...
APs Fact Check Distorts the Fundamentals of a Republican Plan to Reshape Medicare
Originally published at Beat The Press Major news outlets like to adhere to the pretext that the truth in any political argument always lies in the middle. This means that they feel the need to say that the truth in the current battles over the budget and Medicare...
Progressive Breakfast - 6/2/2011
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: Jobs Fix Deficits...
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: Jobs Fix Deficits...
Close the Social Security Cap Tax Loophole
Most people don’t know that there is a huge loophole in the Social Security tax. Believe it or not, after $107K income you don’t pay any Social Security tax. This loophole is called the “cap.” The "cap" loophole is bigger than the loopholes that let big corporations...
Taxed Enough Already How About A Negative 15 Tax Rate
Hours after I called attention to a column by former Reagan and Bush 41 economic adviser Bruce Bartlett that debunked the right-wing narrative that taxes on the wealthy are too high (it's quite the opposite), Citizens for Tax Justice released a preliminary report of...
If You Can Write Hate-Filled Emails To Total Strangers Thank a Public Employee
An email entitled "Lies of Eskov in HP AOL Ariticle" (sic) was received this morning at the office of the Campaign For America's Future and forwarded to me with the comment, "Here's a nice complimentary one ... geez." Hate mail comes with the job and this note was...
Just Who Are Boehners Economists
Today, Speaker John Boehner released a list of 150 economists who back the Republican position that an hike in the debt limit should be conditional on spending cuts greater than that increase. Nothing in the statement mentions fairer taxation or investments in job...
Progressive Breakfast - 6/1/2011
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: GOP, Get Out Of...
GOP Get Out Of Elizabeth Warrens Way
Over the last two weeks, progressives have sparked a massive grassroots groundswell for Elizabeth Warren's appointment to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and rein in reckless bankers. And how did the Senate Republicans respond? By using parliamentary...
