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Miss. Gov. Says No One Lost Medicaid After Spending Cuts, Forgets About Kids With Down Syndrome
Yesterday on CBS' Face The Nation, Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour applauded conservative Alaska Senate candidate Joe Miller for opposing federal aid to his own state. On what grounds? Because slashing state budgets in the middle of a recession is no big deal. Gov....
CNBC Does Not Understand How Regulation Works
A lot of CNBC anchors do not seem to understand how regulation works. In fact, it seems like the network's anchors don't really get how competition works. If you've tuned into the business channel this summer, chances are you've heard its anchors pushing the...
In Detroit, The 'Dream' March The Media Missed
You wouldn't know it from this past weekend's media coverage of Glenn Beck's effort to co-opt the message of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at the site of his famous "I Have a Dream" speech in Washington, but there was a counterdemonstration that day that featured people...
Progressive Breakfast - 8/30/2010
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. Rising Chorus Demands Congress...
In the Tax Debate: A Blast of Fresh New Air
'Soak the rich,' after years in the shadows, has suddenly become a policy option fit for discussion in 'respectable' media circles. At long last, we may be witnessing a fundamental paradigm shift in how we, as a society, talk about taxing the rich. Until this summer,...
Alan "Milk Cow" Simpson In 2004 Lectured Liberals: "Keeping Making Fun … Tearing People Up ... And You'll Never Make It."
Angering A Key Constituency: Women Leaders Ask the President to Fire Alan Simpson
Four prominent leaders of women's organizations held a conference call today, accompanied by Rep. Raul Grijalva, to demand the resignation of retired Sen. Alan Simpson as co-chair of the Deficit Commission. Their comments, together with a number of private...
GDP Revised Down -- Conservative Trade Policies Exporting Our Growth and Jobs
When we pack up a factory here -- and all of its jobs and supply chain and its support/.maintenance structure -- and send it all over there to a country that doesn't have the wage and safety and environmental protections we have, just to save a bit of money today we...
Progressive Breakfast - 8/27/2010
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. Weak 2Q Growth Spurs Calls For...
Progressive Breakfast
March of Washington Anniversary Re-Energizes Progressive Agenda 50 years later, blacks lag behind whites "by almost every measure" reports Bloomberg: "Since the June 2009 end of the recession, median income for black households has dropped 10.9 percent, compared with...
