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Contempt
"Clueless." "Stupid." "Middle-class welfare." Sometimes a guy who likes facts and figures gets slapped in the face by reality, and apparently today's my day. Several recent stories showed me how some of these "austerity economics" advocates in Washington really feel...
What Budget Cuts Mean To Actual PEOPLE
To prepare you for the following stories, here is some context. You might remember that just a few weeks ago Washington passed an extension of the huge tax cuts for the rich and as an added bonus cut the tax on inherited income way, way down. This added approx. $400...
Dan Froomkin On Why America Needs Jobs And A Jobs Summit
The Huffington Post's senior Washington correspondent Dan Froomkin today solves a mystery. Last year he launched a series, "America Needs Jobs," and promised 20 ideas that should be on the policy table for discussion. The ideas made for compelling reading, even though...
On Women’s Day GOP Attacks Women
Not like Valentine’s Day, which is about love and chocolate, or Mother’s Day, which is about sentimentality and breakfast in bed, International Women’s Day is about equality and autonomy. The first commemoration occurred on March 19, 1911, a time when most governments...
A Jobs Bill Wrongly Ignored In Budget-Cut Mania
Demanding bold solutions to today's jobs crisis.Read the series » Register for The Summit on Jobs & America's Future » At a time when the nation faces a lost decade of chronically high unemployment, you would think any serious proposal for putting people back to...
John McCain Demonstrates YET AGAIN His Cluelessness about Trade and Manufacturing
Hey everyone: QUICK TRIVIA QUESTION: Where are iPads and iPhones manufactured?... Need we even tell you the answer? Aren't all of you quite obviously aware that these omnipresent, hi-tech gizmos are "Made in China?" Brace yourself: In an interview on ABC This...
Progressive Breakfast - 3/7/2011
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: A Jobs Bill...
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: A Jobs Bill...
ABCs This Week on Made In America
ABC News has been doing a series on Made In America, outfitting a Dallas family's home entirely with products that are made here. Click through to see videos from this week, before and after photos, a guide to finding goods Made In America on the Internet, as well as...
The Fleecing Taxpayers Bait-and-Switch
Lavishly paid corporate executives, flush with tax-deductible taxpayer dollars, have plenty of reason to relish the right-wing assault on 'overpaid' public employees. But we can wipe that grin off their faces. Somebody is getting rich off our tax dollars. That...
