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Mixed Results on Jobs and Opportunity
New job numbers released last Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics included some welcome news. The national unemployment rate dropped to a two-year low of 8.8% in March, with an increase of 216,000 non-farm payroll jobs. President Obama is rightly touting the...
Were Number Two Why America Is Losing Its Lead In Manufacturing And How
When IHS Global Insight revealed this week that China has passed the United States to lead the world in manufacturing output, the response from some in government and manufacturing was to quibble with the data. The correct response is to develop a national...
Making a Working Program Not Work The New Republican Strategy to Kill Social Security
As they watched crowds build in Madison, Wisconsin this past week, and in support, weekend gatherings all around the country, it appears the GOP has lost its nerve on the big federal government shutdown they've been promising for this coming Friday. Democrats warming...
Today We Are One
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. ~ Martin Luther King Jr. I wrote earlier today that from his mountaintop Martin Luther King Jr. saw the...
Watch the Acclaimed Documentary At the River I Stand
April 4 marks the anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, murdered in 1968 while fighting for the rights of striking Memphis sanitation workers. This event is brilliantly chronicled in the acclaimed documentary, At the River I Stand. This year's...
Dangerous Unselfishness
Years ago, I visited Memphis, Tenn., to attend a conference. The conference coincided with the anniversary of Elvis Presley's death, and thousands of fans were in Memphis to visit Graceland. I visited the Lorraine Motel, where Martin Luther King Jr....
I Happen To Have Paul Krugman Right Here
Watch GOP flack Torie Clark fatuously parroting the most fetid, decaying conventional wisdom ("neither of the two Senators tried to score political points ... they were very responsible") and then drag out the crusty old "uncertainty" trope to explain why companies...
Today Is National We Are One Day 1000 Rallies Nationwide
Today, We Are One, standing in solidarity with millions of working people from every walk of life – for the right to bargain collectively for good, middle-class jobs. Join us in solidarity with working people in Wisconsin, Ohio, Indiana and dozens of other states...
Progressive Breakfast - 4/4/2011
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: On April 4, We Are...
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: On April 4, We Are...
