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Progressive Breakfast - 3/1/2011
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: The GOP's Budget...
The GOPs Budget Body Count 700000
The Republican response to the painful consequences of their budget cuts runs the gamut from "So be it," to "So what?" "So be it," said Speaker John Boehner to news that Republican budget cuts would slash over 200,000 jobs. House Majority...
The GOP Plan to Cut Social Security Starting Right Now
Call it a "general strike" ... from above. Republicans in Congress are trying to paralyze the government with their new budget bill, using a "disrupt and defeat" strategy to prevent it from delivering services promised to the the nation's citizens and required under...
"Entitlement Reform" Is a Euphemism For Letting Old People Get Sick and Die
George Orwell would be proud. The latest Washington catchphrase deserves a place of honor in the 1984 lexicon, right between "War Is Peace" and "Love Is Hate." It's a virus of the language that's spreading faster than the stomach flu. "The President's budget punts on...
Impact Of GOPs Job-Killing Budget Cuts 700000 Jobs Lost
Mark Zandi of Moody's Analytics today confirms what several other experts are saying about the slash-and-burn budget antics of House conservatives: The budget cuts being pushed by House Speaker John Boehner and the Tea Party-possessed House of Representatives will not...
Crappy Jobs Caused By Plutocracy And Austerity
There are good jobs and there are crappy jobs. There are burger-flipping jobs and there are skilled trades and professions. There are jobs that pay well and have benefits and jobs that don’t. There is even the job you had, now paying less, with no benefits. Much of...
Republicans Cut Jobs Keep Oil Company Tax Breaks Dont Cut Military
As you read this, remember what Republicans did just a few weeks ago to force huge tax cuts for the wealthy, adding as much as $900 to budget deficits. Also, keep in mind that we spend more on military than every other country combined. People Want Job Creation Not...
Progressive Breakfast - 2/28/2011
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: Beyond Wisconsin....
Beyond Wisconsin The March 10 Jobs Summit
Demanding bold solutions to today's jobs crisis.Read the series » Register for The Summit on Jobs & America's Future » Over the weekend, progressives rallied in front of all 50 statehouses in support of the protesting Wisconsin civil servants, but with a message...
Taxes Transparency and Our Opaque Opulent
Mega-millionaire residents of Manhattan's finest luxury towers pay less of their income in federal taxes than the janitors in their towers do. Once upon a time, we had a law that discouraged that distinction. By Sam Pizzigati How much of their mega-million incomes did...
