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Progressive Breakfast - 10/18/2010
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. Workers Aim To Prevent GOP Takeover...
Wheeling Town Hall -- BIG Turnout -- Focus Tax Breaks For Offshoring
Driving across Ohio toward Wheeling you pass one small manufacturing company after another - but not too many with lots of cars in the employee parking lot. I stopped in a coffee shop in a small township. They offered me a cookie, and when I declined, the owner said,...
Foreclosures and Guilt The Home Loan Moral Hazard Scorecard
Jamie Dimon and the other mega-bankers who derailed the economy have a new PR campaign to sell you. They're saying that families who can't pay their mortgages must bear the blame - all the blame - for the foreclosure crisis. That means the public should just ignore...
The Difference More Global Equality Could Make
Despite our current global economic hard times, says a new study from banking giant Credit Suisse, the world has more than enough wealth to ensure every adult on it a significant personal net-worth nest egg. By Sam Pizzigati Who owns, right now, the wealth of the...
Lorain OH Keep It Made In America Town Hall Meeting
Thursday evening I attended the "Keep It Made In America" Town Hall in the John Spitzer Conference Center at Lorain County Community College, an impressive, large campus. Lorain, Ohio is another town with closed factories, boarded-up houses, high unemployment, and...
Yes Fortune Wall Street Fraud is a Problem
A lot of frequently credible publications have been pumping out drivel lately blaming borrowers for the ever-widening foreclosure fraud scandal. Fortune Magazine has the latest of these blame-the-borrower narratives. It would be nice to be able to dismiss this kind of...
Tonights Wheeling WVa Town Hall Will Be Webcast
I have just learned that tonite's "Keep It Made In America" Town Hall in Wheeling, West Virginia will be webcast live starting at 5:15PM EST. Visit the Wheeling Town Hall - Live page for the webcast. From their page: With the election less than three weeks away, West...
Jackson Mich Keep It Made In America Town Hall An Energized Event
Yesterday I was in Jackson Michigan to attend the 2010 "Keep It Made In America" Town Hall Tour meeting. It was a very well-attended event, and everyone I spoke with seemed energized because someone is out there talking about what they consider an important issue, and...
The Breakdown Zach Carter and The Nations Chris Hayes Talk Wall Street Fraud
Chris Hayes from The Nation talked to me for his excellent weekly podcast, The Breakdown. We're talking about foreclosure fraud, mortgage-backed securities fraud, illegal mortgage fees, and all kinds of really nasty things happening on Wall Street. Give it a listen:...
Republicans Don’t Trust Americans
Republican fund-raisers are treating Americans like little children, as if the GOP knows best and must shelter the youngsters from the truth. It’s like when a kindergartner asks his father if mommy is coming home soon, and the widower replies that she’s on a long...
