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On Labor Day Work to Save the Middle Class
This Labor Day feels gloomy. It’s a celebration of work when there is not enough of it, a day off when too many desperately seek a day on. America has commemorated two Labor Days since this brutal recession began near the end of George Bush’s presidency in December of...
Wanted Economic Patriots to Save American Dream
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka yesterday described the upcoming elections this way: This election is about economic patriots, and it’s also about corporate traitors. Economic patriotism resonates among working people and the millions ofAmerica's jobless workers--and...
GOP Gov Pawlenty and Dem Sen Wyden Prove Health Care Reform Is Not A Federal Government Takeover
Soon after Congress passed health care reform, Minnesota Gov. and likely '12 presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty decried that "we now have the federal government reaching so far inside our society, dictating whether human behavior is good or not." A few weeks earlier,...
Three Fundamental Differences Between Progressives and Conservatives Pt 3
Read the rest of the series here. In the previous post in this series, I wrote: To progressives, it seems a given that of course we must do something to alleviate the suffering that the financial collapse and economic downturn have the inflicted on millions of...
Progressive Breakfast Yes They Want To Kill Social Security
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. Not Even Hiding It Anymore. New...
Progressive Breakfast - 9/2/2010
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. Not Even Hiding It Anymore. New...
The Robespierre of the Hedge Fund Revolution
A hedge fund manager's "investor letter" - really more of a staged, theatrical tantrum - has been getting a lot of attention lately. Daniel S. Loeb's diatribe demonstrates that banker greed is still out of control, and that it's as short-sighted and destructive as...
America’s Choice Leave a Legacy of Hell or Bequeath Clean Air
At the turn of the 20th Century, smoke meant jobs. When noxious fumes spewed from factory stacks, workers brought home paychecks. Industries hired. The future was bright as molten iron flowing from a blast furnace. In industrial Pittsburgh’s heyday, the smoke was so...
Talking Social Security and the Deficit Commission With Sam Seder & Ashley Carson
Sam Seder and I guest-hosted The Young Turks yesterday and spent our last few on-air minutes talking about Social Security and the Deficit Commission. We were discussing the fact that Simpson's personally objectionable behavior is only one aspect of the problem. There...
Without A Progressive Jobs Policy Middle Class Falls Farther Behind
We now have hard evidence of what we have been seeing on an anecdotal basis as the anemic economic "recovery" continues to muddle forward: The workers who lost their jobs in the Great Recession are entering a job market in which the new jobs being created are at...
