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Jobs Income Crisis As Government Captured By Interests
Earlier in Jobs Crisis In Real World ... Just Not In DC I wrote about the gap between DC/Wall Street thinking about the jobs crisis and reality in the rest of the country. Summary: Our government is not addressing out problems because it is captured by interests: Out...
Drawing Battle Lines In the Clean Energy Standard Fight
In case you weren't sure if the President was serious about investing in clean energy, yesterday, President Obama took time out of dealing with the crisis in Egypt to privately meet with the head of the Senate energy committee about drafting legislation to set a...
Jobs Crisis In Real World Just Not In DC
Who is our economy for? Who is our government for? For 30 years we have been undergoing a transition from "We, the People" democratic government to a plutocracy run by and for the wealthy. One indicator of this transition is the way the DC Elite respond to...
The Tea Party as the GOPs Psycho Ex-Girlfriend in 2012
Much as I loathe the woman, I'm hearing stuff that almost makes me consider donning a "Palin in 2012" button. Not because I want to see her elected (*shudder*). And not out of morbid curiosity But because of what her candidacy could do to the election — and...
Progressive Breakfast - 2/3/2011
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 Crisis In...
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: Jobs Crisis In...
Would Somebody Tell The Senate That Simpson-Bowles Was A Bust
After President Obama declined to embrace any specific recommendation from the Simpson-Bowles proposal that originated in his deficit commission, you might have thought that the plan would be buried for good, But key senators won't let it die the death the public...
Fraudclosure Will State AGs Step Up to Their Moment in History
Rumor has it that the 50 state attorney general investigation into the Fraudclosure scandal is wrapping up. It's time for a backbone check. Will the state attorneys general just ask the big banks and service providers to turn over a chunk of change from seemingly...
Progressive Breakfast - 2/2/2011
Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what progressives need to affect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs, health care, green energy, financial reform, affordable education and retirement security. MORNING MESSAGE: Exporting Our...
Let No Crisis Go to Waste The Conservative Version
Steve Forbes, former presidential candidate, and editor in chief of Forbes Magazine argues from this "Greece/Ireland-like crisis battering local U.S. governments" that "a lot of good may come." He lists the opportunities that misery creates for conservatives. It's an...
