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Cuts For School Kids But More Tax Dollars For Tests
While America's political leaders happily take a meat axe to our nation's public school system, the national media continues to turn our gaze toward more pressing issues. But down here on the ground, the outlook for the nation's school children is looking grimmer and...
Geithners Beltway Wisdom On Stage In New York
Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner came to New York this week to press President Obama’s case for a budget deal and taking action now to reduce the future budget deficit. Sometimes it helps to be a New York writer. A relative outsider to Washington, I...
Progressive Breakfast - 5/20/2011
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: Appoint Elizabeth...
We have a plan Its called Medicare
With Republicans going far beyond line drawing to a full blown assault, a big Democrat finally digs in. Greg Sargent: “It is a flag we’ve planted that we will protect and defend. We have a plan. It’s called Medicare.” That’s from Nancy Pelosi, who called me from...
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: The Next Voting...
Progressive Breakfast - 5/19/2011
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 Next Voting...
The GOPs Own Private Mediscare
It's almost enough to make you feel sorry for Republicans. Almost. The mess the GOP finds itself in, after appointing itself to Medicare's "death panel," would be laughable if it weren't also so pathetic. Especially since it's a mess of GOP's own making, and...
Ruy Teixeira Complicity In Deficit Hysteria Defies Public Will And Common Sense
In a column posted at the New Republic, Ruy Teixeira points out that the current inside-the-Beltway focus on deficit reduction to the exclusion of meaningful steps to put Americans back to work makes no more sense politically than it does economically. "The simplest...
The Next Voting Rights Movement Must Start Now
The kind of fights that were waged in the 1960s to ensure that African Americans had equal access to the right to vote have to be fought again today for millions of voters across the country. INTERVIEW Tova Wang of Demos disusses the impact of conservative-led voter...
For Americas Newspapers the Unemployed Are Invisible and Deficits Are An Obsession
When it comes to the economy, America's newspapers may be failing their readers. A new report by the National Journal confirms that our major papers have dramatically decreased their coverage of the country's enormous unemployment problem, while at the same time...
