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Progressive Breakfast - 11/18/2010
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: We've Foreclosed...
Progressive Breakfast Foreclosing On Ourselves
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: We've Foreclosed...
The Healthcare is Too Damn High (Video)
The Healthcare is Too Damn High from CEPR Oh My goodness. The deficits are out of control. We have to do something! What is wrong with the deficits? Well, we have to cut them. Why? Because if we don’t do something, something really bad will happen Like what? The...
Free Trade By Any Other Name
"Free trade" by any other name ... is still just a scam to pit workers against each other and evade the protections of democracy. We, the People fought to build this democracy with its laws and institutions and protections. This fight brought us a middle class with...
The DCRest-Of-Us Divide And Its Consequences
A CBS poll shows that only 6% of the public is concerned about budget deficits or taxes. The rest of us are more concerned about jobs and the economy, with very good reason. The Washington elite are insulated from the pain the rest of us and are focused on the deficit...
100000 Tell Senate Conservatives Stop Blocking Jobless Benefits
A petition signed by more than 100,000 supporters of extending emergency unemployment benefits was sent to members of Congress earlier today, but this example of overwhelming public support has had no effect on Senate conservatives, who so far haven’t shown...
GOP Abandons Own Plan To Let Tax Cuts Expire Despite Public Opinion
What was that again about a "center-right" nation? A new CNN poll finds only one-third of Americans backs the congressional Republican position for extending the Bush tax breaks to those earning more than $250,000 a year. Nearly half of American share President...
The Schakowsky Deficit Reduction Plan A Proposal that Actually Strengthens Social Security
The first thing you need to know about Rep. Jan Schakowsky’s plan to strengthen Social Security is what it does not do. It does not claim to cut benefits in order to “prevent them from being cut” in the future. It does not “fix” Social Security with 70% benefit cuts...
House Tries to Bail Out Foreclosure Fraudsters Again
A month ago, President Barack Obama vetoed a bill that would have made it far more difficult for borrowers to prove that banks were engaging in foreclosure fraud. The bill was a complex, highly technical bailout for megabanks that have defrauded millions of borrowers,...
Progressive Breakfast - 11/17/2010
MORNING MESSAGE: The DC/Rest-Of-Us Divide OurFuture.org's Dave Johnson: " There is a 'deficit commission' but no jobs commission. There are millions of people needing jobs and millions of jobs that need doing, but Washington won't 'spend,' even on badly-needed...
