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Progressive Breakfast - 10/14/2010
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. No Public Schools, No Estate Taxes...
Making Sense Making It In America
Editor's Note: We're publishing a series of "Making Sense" fact sheets on key economic issues to help you win the debate on the core issues facing middle-class families. Each fact sheet contains information, talking points and resources you can use to make the case...
They Never Should Have Been Trapped In The First Place
The world is rightly cheering the ongoing rescue of the trapped Chilean miners. But let's not forget how they got there: horrible safety regulations and enforcement. In These Times' Lindsey Beyerstein reported back in August that the miners would have escaped right...
Making Sense The New Energy Future
Editor's Note: We're publishing a series of "Making Sense" fact sheets on key economic issues to help you win the debate on the core issues facing middle-class families. Each fact sheet contains information, talking points and resources you can use to make the case...
55 House Members Tell Deficit Commission Cut Defense
Reps. Barney Frank and Ron Paul top a list of 55 signers of a letter to the White House Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform calling on the commission "in the strongest terms" to "include among its recommendations substantial reductions"...
Progressive Breakfast - 10/13/2010
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. States Move To Investigate...
Progressive Breakfast Here Come The AGs
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. States Move To Investigate...
The First Domino Foreclosure Fraud and the Invisible Bailout
The foreclosure fraud scandal is a big deal (or a big "effin'" deal, as Joe Biden might say). But its real significance is an even bigger deal. Foreclosure fraud is one domino, and if it falls others will follow. The result could be an end to the "invisible bailout" -...
Axelrod Is Wrong Obama Must Protect American Families From Wall Street Fraud
If senior White House adviser David Axelrod’s comments this weekend are any indication, the Obama administration is woefully misreading the foreclosure fraud crisis currently gripping the U.S. economy. Axelrod refused to commit the administration to a national...
Automated Greed Factories How Soulless Banking Is Crushing the Economy
Two seemingly unrelated stories from the past week illustrate a fundamental problem with today's financial system. While this problem may seem "philosophical" or abstract, it's very real, and we won't put our economy back on a sound footing until we get a handle on...
