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Progressive Breakfast: No End In Sight
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. Gulf Oil May Be Gushing In August...
Progressive Breakfast - 6/1/2010
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. Gulf Oil May Be Gushing In August...
The True Cost of Freedom -- Progressives, Sacrifice, and Civilization
As I write this, it's Memorial Day down in the US. All over the country, the flags are flying and the high school bands are playing and the parades are queuing up. (So are the shoppers, hitting the sales at the mall.) And of course, it wouldn't be Memorial Day In...
Radio Appearance in Santa Barbara: The Current State of Financial Reform (And What We Can Do About It)
Here's an audio clip of an appearance yesterday with Hannah-Beth Jackson on Santa Barbara progressive radio to discuss the current state of financial reform and what activists can do to influence the outcome: Hannah Beth Jackson 0530 edited I edited out about a minute...
Must Congress Always Cave at Crunch Time?
With millions of Americans out of work and hurting, lawmakers who claim they worry about budget deficits spent last week forcing 'compromises' that will save hedge fund kingpins billions in taxes. You want to lead a charmed existence? Just start up your own private...
Obama's Press Conference: You Can't Negotiate With Disaster
There's a lot to admire about the President's consensus-seeking style, however frustrating it can be to activists. But his press conference yesterday, and the management problems that led up to it, show the limits of that style in times of crisis. Hopefully the oil...
The Jobs Deficit & The Breaking Point, Pt. 2
The change agenda at America's Future NOW! REGISTER NOW for AFN 2010 The deficit fear mongers are right that America faces a deficit that threatens to cripple our economy and foreclose on the futures of millions of Americans. They just have the wrong deficit. That's...
Guillotines and Green / Tea Party Thinking
Congress is a big FAIL on jobs and unemployment. The Senate is heading home instead of helping the unemployed, the House is FAILing on jobs unemployment and COBRA subsidies. Congress says they are worried about the deficit, but the deficit was The Plan. It is right in...
Progressive Breakfast - 5/28/2010
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. Today, Bill Scher is off....
The Jobs Deficit: Tell Congress To Act
The jobs deficit is our No. 1 domestic economic priority, but today members of both houses of Congress behaved as if it's no big deal. The House was scheduled today to vote on a jobs and tax extenders bill after Democratic leaders cut back the size of the bill to...
