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Budget Choice Govern Or Gut
Demanding bold solutions to today's jobs crisis.Read the series » Register for The Summit on Jobs & America's Future » Governing for We, the People, or gutting for the benefit of the rich? This budget fight is about a stark choice: jobs and growth for We, the...
Republicans Are CUTTING Jobs Programs
The country has been waiting for the promised action on jobs and unemployment since the new Congress came in. Nothing yet. We've had the show-vote on health care, we've had abortion, we've had silly conservative fluff bill after sily conservative fluff bill, but...
Same Old Same Old Destructive Economy
Will DC wake up and smell the real economy? In DC and Wall Street the economy is just fine. In fact it couldn't be better. Corporate profits and the stock market, after all, are way up -- the Fed has worked it's bubble-pumping magic yet again! And if you are in that...
China Trade Gap Breaks Record Destroys Jobs
Demanding bold solutions to today's jobs crisis.Read the series » Register for The Summit on Jobs & America's Future » Did you see the Chrysler Super Bowl ad? Advertisers understand that Americans are hungry to be able to buy American-made goods again. And...
President Antes Up 15M New Jobs GOP Folds
Demanding bold solutions to today's jobs crisis.Read the series » Register for The Summit on Jobs & America's Future » There's a risk that the budget battle descends into a race to the bottom to see which party can cut the most. But that is not an inevitability....
Progressive Breakfast - 2/15/2011
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: Jobs v. No Jobs...
Conservatives Closing The Roads To Jobs And Recovery
LISTEN Deborah Weinstein of the Coalition for Human Needs explains how irresponsible federal budget cuts being proposed by conservatives in Congress will ultimately make the economy worse. The federal budget cuts being proposed by conservatives on Capitol Hill are not...
First Person Politician Video Game Politics and the Battle of the Budgets
The President's budget has just been released, and so has a Republican alternative from the House Appropriations Committee. Reading them is like watching two people play a video game and confusing it for the real world. These budgets don't reflect competing visions so...
Beyond Hysteria Common Sense about Deficits
With the submission today of the President’s proposed budget for next year (FY 2012), Washington descends further into the furious debate about less. How much less will government do? The president pledges to freeze domestic spending for five years, reducing it to a...
Progressive Breakfast - 2/14/2011
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: Citizens Guide To...
