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Where Are The Breadwinning Jobs
There isn't much cause for gloating in today's unemployment report, with the number of jobs created during December—103,000—being lower than most analysts expected. But, more critically, we're not even treading water on creating a sufficient number of "breadwinning...
An Open Letter to Tea Party Activists Lets Defend Social Security Together
Polls consistently find that the vast majority of Americans oppose cutting Social Security, whether they're progressives or Tea Partiers or anything in between. And most real experts agree it's not necessary. We're supposed to have a government "of the people, by the...
Losing Well Can Be A Win
Mike Konczal at Rortybomb makes an excellent observation in his post responding to Jonathan Bernsteins' query to liberals about what disappointed/surprised them the most about the Obama administration (which I answered here.) Konczal writes: I expected Obama to be a...
Job #1 Jobs
As Paul Krugman aptly summarizes, “recovery” is today's fool’s gold. Good news about the economy—higher holiday sales, lower unemployment filings—feeds a truly dangerous Beltway conventional wisdom: “We’re in recovery; now it is time to tighten our belts, cut...
Filibuster Make Them Talk
The Senate is considering reforming the rules for filibusters. In the last few years the filibuster has been used so frequently that it is now conventional wisdom that "it takes 60 votes to pass a bill in the Senate." This is because the public, and apparently even...
Progressive Breakfast - 1/18/2011
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: Obama, Listen To...
Progressive Breakfast
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: Obama, Listen To...
We Need An Unemployed Peoples Campaign
When Martin Luther King Jr. gave the sermon at the National Cathedral in Washington on March 31, 1968 to highlight the Poor People's Campaign he was organizing for later that spring, unemployment was hovering just under 7 percent—for African Americans. The nationwide...
Brutal Bookends Our Middles Final Squeeze
New governors in New York and California seem hell-bent on delivering a knockout blow to America's most historic social contribution, the mass middle class. A bit over a half century ago, in the years right after World War II, the United States delivered up onto the...
Half A Trillion In Cuts To Medicare
Watch as GOP Rep. Jim Renacci (OH) is confronted at a local town hall meeting, asked what the heck he thinks he is doing saying he will vote to repeal the health care reform law. Renacci replies that he and fellow Republicans campaigned on reversing the "half a...
