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The Proposed Foreclosure Fraud Bank Settlement Part 2 A Leadership Vacuum
In Part I of this series we discussed the media's failure to accurately report the scope and nature of the banker crime wave around foreclosure fraud, and talked about the confusion over reports that the Administration has proposed a framework for settling the...
Jobs and March Madness
Demanding bold solutions to today's jobs crisis.Read the series » Register for The Summit on Jobs & America's Future » March Madness has descended on Washington – and I’m not talking college basketball. With 25 million people in need of full-time work, in...
A New Budget Without Truth or Courage -- Its Time to Speak to a Larger Audience
Demanding bold solutions to today's jobs crisis.Read the series » Register for The Summit on Jobs & America's Future » Leo Hindrey, Jr. will be a featured speaker at the March 10 "Summit For Jobs and America's Future." The following originally appeared at The...
Disaster Capitalisms Catastrophic Success In Ireland And America
It probably seems like I'm "a day late and a dollar short," with a post about Ireland's economic disaster days after the New York Times story about the high cost of austerity measures in Ireland echoed all over the progressive blogosphere. But I'm not. It just took me...
Bob Pollin Busts The Overpaid Public Employee Lie
It keeps getting recited as if it is holy writ: Public sector employees have better pay and benefits than private sector employees. And with that belief firmly planted in the public mind, private sector workers who have seen their own wages and benefits eroded...
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: End Washington's...
Progressive Breakfast - 3/2/2011
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: End Washington's...
What is it about JOBS that is so hard to get
"The American people's priorities are clear," said Boehner spokesman Michael Steel. "They want to keep the government open, and they want to cut spending." Uh. no. Americans have said agan and again their chief priority is JOBS and the the economy. It is bizarre. For...
More than 300 Economists Repudiate Right-Wing So Be It Economics
The stream of economic experts who are denouncing the budget slashing that the House of Representatives did last month has just turned into a flood. Today the Economic Policy Institute and the Center for American Progress jointly released a statement signed by nearly...
A Real Conservative Constitutionalist Sues FL Gov Rick Scott For Unconstitutionally Killing High-Speed Rail Jobs
Florida State Sen. Thad Altman describes himself as a "conservative Republican" and a "strict constitutionalist." Unlike so many conservative Republican lawmakers and judges who claim to abide by the constitution while skipping the clauses that get in the way of their...
