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Progressive Breakfast - 10/29/2010
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. Bernanke Wants Congress To Back...
Action United Calls Toomey Out on Social Security
We're working with some of the best state-level bloggers from around the country to help us tell the truth about key economic and social policy issues, and to draw the contrast between the rhetoric of the right and the progressive alternative. Please visit our CAF...
Obama Steep Hike In The Retirement Age Not The Best Way To Fix Social Security
Potentially overlooked in yesterday's blogger roundtable with President Obama is his response to the question "Will you rule out raising the retirement age to 70?" House Minority Leader John Boehner has explicitly backed the proposal, and a raise in the retirement age...
About Voting
Polls show that a significant number of people who might be on "our side" are not going to bother to vote. Some are even switching sides. The big corporations and right-wing billionaires are spending millions upon millions of dollars bombarding them with propaganda on...
Getting Medieval On Your Assets Four Reasons Foreclosure Fraud Really Really Matters
The current debate over foreclosure fraud has been a revelation, even for those of us who have become familiar with the power of moneyed interests to influence the national dialog. Despite overwhelming evidence of widespread lawbreaking and deception, there's still a...
Winning The Race To The Bottom
Conservative policies have propelled us into a global race to the bottom. Conservatives can take pride: we're winning! "Free trade" -- moving factories across borders to evade the protections of democracy that generations of Americans fought for -- pits exploited...
Vote As If The Planet Depends On It Because It Does
While many progressives have lamented the inability of the President and the congressional leadership to pass legislation capping greenhouse gas emission, few have recognized that the White House always had a Plan B for averting the climate crisis - the EPA. But if...
Vote for Hope
The electorate is bitter and angry. It’s no wonder. Foreclosures rise while Wall Street bankers, whose recklessness caused this grave recession, grab million dollar bonuses. Unemployment is stuck at 9.5 percent, but corporations continue to ship jobs overseas. The...
Campaign Cash Sen Jim DeMints Making a Mint with Corporate Cash
Corporate cash does funny things to people. Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) got into office by pledging to fight "special interests," but just a decade or so later, he's running one of the biggest special interest shows in Washington. It's easy to see the appeal. As the fancy...
Raj Date Is The Best Thing To Happen To Consumers Since Elizabeth Warren
The New York Times should be embarrassed. This morning, the paper of record published an outrageous hit-piece on Raj Date, one of the most effective consumer advocates in the nation. The article completely misconstrues Date's work on financial reform, ignores his...
