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Progressive Breakfast - 3/1/2010
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. Unemployment Insurance Cut Off For...
Wall Street's Protection Racket: Still Rolling
To really reform big bank behavior, we need to scuttle the pay system that 'entitles' Wall Streeters to however much loot they can grab. Too many Americans, conservative ideologues often lament, feel entitled to the good life, even if they haven’t worked to...
Q&A with Manufacturing Business Expert Richard McCormack
Leo W. Gerard: Richard, when you appeared recently at Youngstown State University as a guest of the Center for Working-Class Lecture Series, you talked about how essential manufacturing is to the U.S. economy and how politicians seem clueless about that. In fact, you...
Conservative Unemployment Roadblock Will Cost States Millions
The latest bit of obstruction being staged by a Senate conservative, done in the name of limiting federal spending, is going to end up costing cash-strapped states millions of dollars as well as potentially causing millions of workers to lose their unemployment...
Whirlpool: Mexican Workers Paid $70/Week Can't Buy Refrigerators
Whirlpool is closing a plant in Evansville, Indiana, and moving the jobs to Mexico, where the workers will be paid $70 per week. Our system is broken when "the market" encourages companies like Whirlpool to close factories, destroy the lives of American workers,...
The Week In Blog: A Bipartisan Chat About The Bipartisan Summit
The partisan gulf was not just present in the summit room yesterday, but liberal and conservative bloggers also had completely different takes on what transpired. Liberals slammed the inability of Republicans to engage in serious discussion, while conservatives tried...
Progressive Breakfast - 2/26/2010
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. After Summit, Dems Move To Pass...
Social Security Works for Women
# With longer life expectancies than men, elderly women tend to live more years in retirement and have a greater chance of exhausting other sources of income. They benefit from Social Security's cost-of-living protections because benefits are annually adjusted for...
Financial Reform: Reconciliation or Ritual?
The pheremonic scent of compromise is inducing euphoria in the nation's capitol once again. Not that there's anything wrong with compromise, if it results in policies that work. But we've just pulled ourselves back from the brink of financial meltdown, and tens of...
"Grand Obstructionist Oppressive Party" Makes The Case For Simple Majority Health Care Vote
During the lunch break of today's health care summit, C-Span 3 took two calls from Republican voters appalled at what they saw from their own party's congressional leaders. One praised President Obama for trying to tackle a serious problem, while lamenting the...
