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Progressive Breakfast - 5/10/2011
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: American Media,...
US - China Summit If Trade Was Trade
Today the US-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue begins in Washington. This is the third such meeting, and it's time for the Obama administration to get it right. China has not been engaging in "trade" with us, they have been engaging in something else entirely. The...
Defending Anti-Worker CEOs How Herman Cain Enthralled Conservatives And Won The GOP Debate
Former Godfather's Pizza CEO Herman Cain became the surprise winner of the first Republican presidential primary debate, after a focus group organized by Fox News overwhelming embraced him. What he did say that was so compelling to conservatives? Cain received the...
Progressive Breakfast - 5/9/2011
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: Deconstructing...
Make Sure Mom Will Have Medicare
While you're thinking of your mother on Mother's Day, think about the health care options your mother should have once she is 65. One of the greatest gifts we can leave for our parents is the defeat of the Medicare privatization plan that conservatives want to foist...
The Company The GOP Keeps
You can tell a lot about someone by the company they keep. Or so the saying goes. The GOP held its first presidential primary debate in Greenville, South Carolina, with the help of some very interesting — and very telling — company from the farthest of the far-right...
Effort To Dismantle Federal Unemployment Insurance Launched In Congress
The following was originally published at UnemployedWorkers.org Less than five months after approving a reauthorization of federally-funded unemployment insurance benefits as part of an agreement to extend tax cuts for those with the highest incomes, leading members...
China Tells US To Mind Our Own Business – And We Should
China's Vice Finance Minister lectured US administration officials about our debt and told us to mind our own business when it comes to China's currency manipulation. It is about time the United States started minding our own business by taking steps to protect our...
Drill Baby Drill Bill Doesnt Even Let America Keep What It Drills
According to the Republican-led House, American energy independence involves Americans producing energy. But not Americans keeping our own energy. Yesterday, the House passed a bill to expand coastal drilling in the Gulf of Mexico and eastern seaboard without careful...
Jobs Report Give Pink Slip To So Be It Conservatism
It is amazing, given that we've been fighting a three-alarm unemployment fire with water buckets the past few months, that there is any positive news at all in the unemployment front. But there was a surprising net increase in 244,000 new jobs in April—a sliver of...
