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Wisconsin Subterfuge Violates American Democratic Values
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and his crew of country club conservatives this week brutalized the nation’s democratic traditions to secure legislation demanded by big corporations and billionaire conservative financiers like the Koch brothers – legislation stripping...
A Guide To A Deluded Budget Debate
The following was originally published in Politico ‘America is broke.” “Government’s on a spending spree.” “Real deficit reduction requires taking on entitlements.” The delusions and distortions are so widespread the truth...
Jobs And Economic Justice Tour Launched
VIDEO Rep. Keith Ellison discusses his plan for a "jobs and economic justice tour" in cities nationwide. The Progressive Caucus is launching a "jobs and economic justice" tour around the country, Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., announced at the Summit on Jobs and...
LA Mayor Villaraigosa Discusses America Fast Forward At Jobs Summit
Antonio Villaraigosa, Mayor of Los Angeles, talked today at the Summit On Jobs & America's Future in Washington D.C. Villaraigosa described the bipartisan America Fast Forward initiative from the National Conference of Mayors. The America Fast Forward initiative is...
Rich Trumka At Jobs Summit Channel This Uprising Into A Movement For Jobs
• "I can’t remember when we decided to downsize our middle class. When was it we decided to downgrade our living standards? I don’t remember that!" • " 'Jobs jobs jobs,' doesn’t mean people should need 2 or 3 jobs to make ends meet." • "Our economy...
Its The Economy Moron
"It's the economy, moron!" That was pollster Celinda Lake's succinct take, at the Summit on Jobs & America's Future, this morning. Lake was there in 1992 when James Carville summed up the Clinton campaign's winning message in 1992, "It's the economy, stupid." In 1992,...
Top Tweets From The #JobSummit
The Summit on Jobs & America's Future is still underway, but here are the best Twitter posts from the conference, so far: @mpiscatella: @villaraigosa: I was a latch key kid my child care program was a library. we need to accelerate investment in infrastructure...
Progressive Breakfast - 3/10/2011
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: Backstabbing...
Backstabbing Unions Cutting Jobs Today We Stop The Insanity
By 3:30 PM ET, the U.S. Senate had voted on two competing government operations bill this fiscal year. Both would cut spending. One which would lead to a loss of as many as one million jobs. The other relatively mild bill would not cause as much pain, but certainly...
710000 Jobs Endangered By Massive State Deficits So Be It
Demanding bold solutions to today's jobs crisis.Read the series » Register for The Summit on Jobs & America's Future » The general reaction to last week's jobs report was positive toward the 222,000 private sector jobs that were created and dismissive of the fact...
