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Previewing Day 1 Of America's Future Now: Arianna, Stern, Westen, Markos, Durbin, Jackson and The Great Debate
Monday begins the biggest progressive conference of the year: America's Future Now! What's in store for the thousands of progressives gathering in Washington, DC on Monday? At 11 AM, the conference kicks off with the "We Are The Change" opening plenary. Robert...
Only 20,000 New Non-Census Jobs In May! Jobs Bills NEEDED!
Evan as Washington ignores jobs bills and slashes help for long-term unemployed workers the economy may be starting to fall back. The economy added 431,000 jobs in May, but 411,000 of those were temporary census workers. Compare this to last month when businesses...
Progressive Breakfast - 6/4/2010
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. As "America's Future Now!" Prepares...
Progressives: Time to Go Off the Reservation
When progressive activists gather next week at the annual America’s Future Now conference, frustration and dismay will be widespread. Action on jobs is stalled among mixed signals from the White House. A Democratic Congress pours billions into the war in...
Obama, Progressives, and Leadership: or, I've Been Doing Some Thinking About Us ...
I was getting ready to attend next week's America's Future Now conference, whose theme is that progressives must lead, and thinking about the relationship problems progressives are having with Barack Obama and the Congressional leadership. All the relationship books...
Tomorrow's Jobs Report Will Look Great But Includes Census Hires
Today ADP reported that private-sector jobs may have increased by 55,000 last month. (ADP is able to make this estimate because the company processes 1 of every 6 paychecks nationwide.) Meanwhile the Labor Department reported that initial claims for unemployment...
Come Shape The Next Phase Of The Progressive Movement At America's Future Now
It's an interesting time to be a progressive in the United States. In many ways, the election of President Barack Obama represented a logical, if improbable, end to the era of phony Reaganomics and demonization politics. But the Obama presidency has been a serious...
High Unemployment Used To Be A National Emergency
In Does Washington care about unemployment? economist Brad DeLong asks the question, In 1983, Ronald Reagan's Washington regarded high unemployment as a national emergency. Today, with unemployment kissing 10 percent, Barack Obama's Washington scarcely seems...
Progressive Breakfast: The President Frames The Choice For 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. Invest In America, Or Shortchange...
Progressive Breakfast - 6/3/2010
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. Invest In America, Or Shortchange...
