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The Cruelty Lobby
Not content to merely lobby for cutting Social Security pensions, the other day Peter Orszag put disability insurance on the menu as well, saying that people with disabilities should be working during this economic downturn.(It's bad for their character if they don't,...
What About Wall Street Making Peace With Working People
President Obama spent much of Wednesday huddled with a group of business executives, an effort The New York Times said afterward "went a long way to reset the tone of the relationship between Mr. Obama and corporate America" in the eyes of the corporate chieftains who...
Full Catastrophe Banking in 2011
With a $4.7 trillion bailout under their belts and no harm done to their billion-dollar bonuses, don't expect Wall Street bankers to be chastened by the 2008 financial crisis. Below we list eight things to watch out for in 2011 that threaten to rock the financial...
Progressive Breakfast - 1/3/2011
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: Job #1 Is Jobs...
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Locking In Inequality for Another Generation
A widely overlooked provision in last month's tax cut deal is going to speed even more wealth to America's Paris Hilton set. Brace yourselves, young people. In 2011, you figure to face a real stinker of a year. Those of you attending America's budget-strapped public...
Inequality A Melancholy of the Soul
Nicholas Kristof has important piece in NYT, entitled Equality, A True Soul Food He summarizes the striking work that shows how corrosive extreme inequality is not simply to society, but to the health of individuals themselves.Extreme Inequality, he writes, feeds a...
New Years Slideshow Choose the Years Most Absurd Comment From a Financial Wizard
Happy New Year! We've created a morning-after slideshow at The Huffington Post: "Choose the Year's Most Absurd Comment From a "Financial Wizard." Head on over there and cast your vote. The competition's fierce. (link)
Which of These Banks Was 2010s Most Shameless Corporate Outlaw
Bankers. The red carpet's still being rolled out for them in Washington, but if there's a stain on it they'll pout for days. Jason Linkins documents the latest set of cheap white whines from very wealthy white men. (Discrimination lawsuits are a routine part of their...
Conservatives Claim Unions Caused NY Snow Jam
The right's propaganda machine begins with a simple narrative, repeats it endlessly, and then ties current events to the narrative to drive the point home. The corporate/conservative right are currently working a narrative that public employees and their unions are...
