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Progressive Breakfast - 2/11/2011
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: Crimes ... And GE...
In the Dark Crimes Capital Crimes And GE Capital Crimes
Can a crime be committed if there is no criminal to commit it? According to the Securities and Exchange Commission, the answer to that Zen koan is apparently "yes." The SEC collected a $50 million settlement from GE Capital after concluding that the corporation...
Balance Trade—Make Jobs
Summary Our present severe recession, though officially over, lends urgency to tackling U.S. trade issues. Without the announcement effect of a trade bill, manufacturers will continue to shutter factories and move production overseas. President Obama’s goal of...
Philly Mayor Warns Washington Dont Cut The Recovery
Demanding bold solutions to today's jobs crisis.Read the series » Register for The Summit on Jobs & America's Future » Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter has declared this week "jobs week" in his city, and he has been using it as an opportunity to announce a series...
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: Austerity Horrors...
Progressive Breakfast - 2/10/2011
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: Austerity Horrors...
Obama Bets Big On High-Speed Rail Jobs Can He Make The Case
Demanding bold solutions to today's jobs crisis.Read the series » Register for The Summit on Jobs & America's Future » After President Barack Obama first invested in a national high-speed rail network, concerns persisted among some rail advocates that not...
Obama’s Half Measures Won’t Save the States
Demanding bold solutions to today's jobs crisis.Read the series » Register for The Summit on Jobs & America's Future » Much could be done to help state budgets and reduce unemployment. None of them will happen. Business Week reports that President Obama is...
Why We Need A Jobs Summit
To break the inside-the-Beltway consensus that a robust, government-led effort to lower the unemployment rate this year should not be on the table for legislative debate, the Campaign for America's Future this week announced that it is convening a "Summit on Jobs and...
The Forgotten 99ers -- Abandoned By Their Country
I was looking for news reports about the "99ers" -- people unemployed for 99 weeks or more, and therefore unable to receive any unemployment benefits -- and noticed that almost no one is covering this. Mostly Examiner.com, MLive, "From the Trenches" and "RantRave."...
