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NBCWSJ Poll Phasing Out Social Security Ranks Dead Last
Most of the chatter around poll numbers you'll hear over the next several weeks will be about whether either body of Congress changes hands. But some of these poll questions actually ask about what the country wants Congress to do. And it's crystal clear Americans...
With A Compass Not A Roadmap
The complaints are starting on the new Obama administration. Some are concerned that he filled his administration with former Clinton hands, reflecting the old school (if more competent), not the change we need. “What worries me is there is not one person in the...
Progressive Breakfast - 9/7/2010
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. Obama Proposes $50B Infrastructure...
Holding Arpaio Accountable
Maricopa County, Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio is known for housing inmates in tent cities in the desert and making them wear pink clothes as humiliation, but also for allegations of racial profiling and abusive treatment of Latinos, inside and outside of his jailhouse....
Surfing in Style through the Great Recession
American corporate CEOs, an eye-opening new study documents, have discovered a quick fix that almost guarantees good times for the executive set. They kill jobs. If you started last year on the payroll at Verizon or Alcoa or Boeing or IBM, you may have found yourself...
How Companies Turn People Against Unions
If you had a company and could make people work for free, keeping all the proceeds just for yourself, you might do that. If you could. What’s stopping you? There are plenty of unemployed people in the country and in the world – more every day thanks to population...
American Jobs Tragedy
The stimulus worked but was not enough. Here is the result: This is known as "the scariest jobs chart," from
Labor Day Irony The People Who Want to Cut Social Security All Have Great Retirement Plans
Events of the last week have made the Deficit Commission an embarrassment. Co-Chair Alan Simpson is a one-man disaster movie, compulsively offending one key voting bloc after another. Commission member Paul Ryan faced an angry crowd over his anti-Social Security...
Labor Day Labor Got It Right -- Who Could Have Known
"Who could have known?" That's the cry from the big-corporate and DC elite as the economy and the environment and so many imporant things crash around us. (Around us, not them, they're doing just fine and taking good care of each other.) Who could have known that...
Progressive Breakfast - 9/3/2010
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. White House (Finally) Considering...
