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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...
Insanity: After the Big Crash, The GOP Wants to Deregulate ... Again
Millions of Americans are struggling to survive in the ruins of a once-healthy economy. A bipartisan frenzy of bank deregulation led to this catastrophe, and the financial reform bill passed this year is only a first step toward repairing the damage. We should be...
In NYT Matt Bai Attacks Social Security
In today’s New York Times, One Liberal Voice Dares to Say, Cut the Budget, by Matt Bai. Bai's piece frames the federal debt as almost entirely the fault of Social Security, with cutting Social Security the only real way to fix the problem. Bai claims that "liberal...
Milk Cow Blues: Why the Alan Simpson Flap Won't Go Away
Alan Simpson said he's sorry, but it's not enough. The calls for his resignation will continue - and not because of "political correctness" or his use of the word "tit," has his apologists suggest. They'll continue because he's uninformed about Social Security,...
Detroit 'Rebuild America' March, King's Dream And The Tea-Party Hijack
A number of cities around the country are turning off their street lights, unpaving their roads and rolling back what used to be sacrosanct public services because they can no longer afford to provide them. The New York Times reported recently that students at a...
Will Perpetrators of Financial Crimes Ever Face Justice?
Some will rob you with a six gun and some with a fountain pen - Woodie Guthrie Like mushrooms popping up in a damp basement, a slew of court settlements have been registered recently involving the big banks and their role in the financial crisis. An informal review of...
Progressive Breakfast - 8/26/2010
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. Simpson Apology Doesn't Stop Calls...
Simpson Social Security Comments Highlight Battle of Democracy vs. Plutocracy
Former Wyoming Republican Senator Alan Simpson is co-chair of President Obama's Fiscal Commission. This is what he said the other day about the relationship between the American people and our government: "We’ve reached a point now where it’s like a milk cow with 310...
Alan Simpson's Apology: Gracious ... and Not Enough
Ryan Grim reports that Alan Simpson has apologized to Ashley B. Carson of the Older Women's League for sending her an insulting email. Unfortunately, it's not enough.
