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Progressive Breakfast - 5/6/2011
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: Alice In...
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: Alice In...
Alice in Medicareland One Voucher Makes You Larger
"If I had a world of my own," said Alice, "everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is because everything would be what it isn't." The rabbit hole's got nothing on this place."Let's save Social Security from a 25% cut in 27 years," they told Alice, "by...
China Summit Let Trade BE Trade
Since China’s admission into the World Trade Organization we have been packing up our factories and sending them over there. We have been buying so many things made in China, but they have not been buying very many things made here, and the resulting “trade deficit”...
Democrats Plan Makes Jobs In America
Congressional Democrats yesterday unveiled the Make It In America plan for the 112th congress. This is a set of specific, detailed, targeted bills that clearly create jobs and restore our economic competitiveness, beginning with a national strategy for manufacturing....
How The Right Wing Schools Education Reformists
Now that No Child Left Behind has become the butt of popular ridicule, and the prospect of forging a new consensus on education policy in DC seems doubtful, you would think that everyone currently clamoring for education "reform" would step back, take a deep breath,...
Draw Down Afghanistan Build Up America
Click here to sign the petition: "Draw Down Afghanistan. Build Up America." And click here to hear Robert Borosage tell NPR, "This policy has no clothes and it's going to change." We went into Afghanistan to track down those who launched the 9/11 attacks on America....
Progressive Breakfast - 5/5/2011
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: Democrats' Plan...
Green Alert Banks Use Bush Terror Team Threat Tactics to Push Debit Card Fees
Big banks and credit card companies have made a PR misstep in the fight over debit card charges. They're trying to use the Bush Administration's anti-terror team to convince Americans that exorbitant debit card fees are needed for our nation's security. The timing...
Its The Economy Stupid Version 2011
Within a week, as the news and analysis of Osama bin Laden's demise fades, the American people will focus once again on the issues that matter most to their daily lives. For most Americans, that includes the jobs market and the state of our economy. But no one is...
