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Progressive Breakfast - 3/8/2010
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. Obama Hits The Road For Health Care...
For a 'Living Wage' America, Cap the Top
The White House wants to require firms that do business with the government to pay decent wages. That could work — if we go after all pay that's indecent. Labels can often cloud reality. Take the labels of “private” and “public” sector....
Conservatives Caused Huge Deficits, Blame Obama
Headline at Drudge Report: Obama policies projected to add $9.7 trillion to debt by 2020... points to this story, National debt to be higher than White House forecast, CBO says, President Obama's proposed budget would add more than $9.7 trillion to the national debt...
RNC Fund-raising Scandal And Conservatism's True "Code Red" Colors
As prominent Republicans continue to distance themselves from an internal Republican National Committee fund-raising presentation that emphasized "fear" as a primary motivator of "reactionary" potential donors, it pays to reexamine the evidence t
NUMMI Closing Highlights Need for U.S. Manufacturing Policy
Closing the New United Motors Manufacturing Inc. automotive plant in California will eliminate 25,000 jobs in the state and cost taxpayers $2.3 billion to replace the jobs lost, according to a March 3 report by University of California professor Harley Shaiken. The...
Progressive Breakfast - 3/5/2010
Public Option Fight May Continue After Reform Passes President seeks to reassure House progressives on future of public option. Salon.com:: "A key House progressive says President Obama blamed the Senate Thursday for the fact that a public insurance option has been...
Stiglitz's Smackdown, Elizabeth Warren's Teeth, and Robert Rubin's Virtual Reality
Nobel Prize-winner Joseph Stiglitz said the Fed was "corrupt," Elizabeth Warren said she wanted to fight for the CFPA until there were "blood and teeth" on the floor, and Robert Rubin said "virtually nobody" sa
Reconciliation: Byrd Invokes "Byrd Rule" - Kent Conrad and EJ Dionne Get It Right
Robert Byrd just came out in favor of using reconciliation in health reform. Since reconciliation's also known as the "Byrd rule," that's a definitive a confirmation of its legitimacy as you can get. It's like having Chuck Berry saying "that's a good Chuck Berry...
California Factory Closing - HUGE Impact - Steps You Can Take
Toyota is planning on closing the New United Motor Manufacturing, Inc. NUMMI auto-manufacturing plant in Fremont, CA on March 31. The immediate effect is a loss of 5,000 jobs. But, as with any factory closing, the effects ripple out well beyond the immediately...
For Crying Out Loud ConservaDems, You Won! Pass Health Care Now.
The President and congressional leaders have repeatedly acceded to the demands of the right-leaning faction of the Democratic Party on health care. Typically, when congresspeople get what they want in a bill, they proceed to vote for that bill. Yet not one Democratic...
