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Two Graphs that Every American Worker Should See
Apparently the Fiscal Commission believes that only the very poorest (those with career earnings in the range of $10,771) depend upon Social Security's benefits for security in old age--because they are the only ones the Commission spares from cuts. The middle and...
Deficit Dialog An Exchange of Letters With Pete Petersons Foundation
Recently I wrote that the deficit-cutting projects and media campaigns sponsored by billionaire Pete Peterson all "focus on the same narrow band of options" that "reflect far-right positions," but nevertheless are usually described in the media as "moderate" and...
Americas Confidence Deficit
Let's go through it one more time. A simple truth: You can't get the right answer if you ask the wrong question. The furious debate over how best to cut the deficit illustrates the point. The debate is about how we best enforce austerity. How do we bring the federal...
Tea Party Gets Played Electeds Want Govt Health Care
If there is one thing that Tea Party members hate, it's government health care. I guess that's why so many of them want the government to keep away from their Medicare. (You may have seen ad after ad last month blasting Democrats because Obamacare "cut Medicare." See...
Remembering Chalmers Johnson A Progressive Voice Of Clarity
I met Chalmers at his home in San Diego when he kindly agreed to make a film for the Campaign for America's Future conference because he was unable to be there in person. We spent the morning talking and filming, and then shared lunch together. Johnson,...
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: Ireland --...
Progressive Breakfast - 11/24/2010
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: Ireland --...
The Closer the Focus the Deeper the Divide
The national statistics on the economic and social gaps that divide us, suggests new research two years in the making, actually understate how unequal American life has become at the more local level, where people live it. “The United States today is a country...
Piggy Bank Morality Maya MacGuineas and David Brooks
Recent remarks by a would-be Social Security cutter highlight the unspoken agenda behind proposals that claim to "fix" the program by cutting benefits, all in the name of "deficit reduction." Social Security doesn't contribute to the deficit. But it can help decrease...
China Says It Doesnt Steal Gets Caught Stealing
China claims it originated or bought technology for their high-speed rail projects, and didn't steal it. This is a Google translation -- Refuting the State Intellectual Property Office of China's high-speed rail: China news agency, Chengdu, November 22 (Xu Yangyi) -...
