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Progressive Breakfast - 2/11/2010
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 Job Growth Projected Without...
Rogue Nation: How Does the U.S. Deal With China?
China has surpassed Germany as the world's largest exporter. It is the largest holder of American Treasury bonds, nearly $800 billion. America runs its largest trade deficit by far with China. The low-price flood of goods—the Wal-Mart trade—is pervasive. Now the U.S....
Who Is Really "Anti-Business"?
In the Bloomberg story today, Obama Doesn’t ‘Begrudge’ Bonuses for Blankfein, Dimon, President Obama, spoke up about the huge Wall Street bonuses handed out this year, “I know both those guys; they are very savvy businessmen,” Obama said in the interview yesterday in...
Sen. Kyl Gets One Right: This Ain't A Jobs Bill
The possibility exists for the Senate to pass a bipartisan jobs bill. It just won't do much to create jobs. The Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl, typically a fountain of misinformation, gets this one right in Bloomberg: "Kyl ... said Democrats shouldn’t advertise the...
White House Takes A Stand For Students, Against Big Banks. Will You?
Yesterday, following the NYT report that bank lobbies, led by private lender Sallie Mae, were succeeding in stalling student loan reform, Education Secretary Arne Duncan shot back. The Washington Post reported on Duncan's blistering retort: "Working Americans pay...
Progressive Breakfast - 2/10/2010
Chance For Small But Bipartisan Jobs Bill ... After the Snow Senate jobs package based on GOP tax cut ideas, though GOP still hasn't endorsed. LAT: "In a rare move toward bipartisanship, Senate Democrats prepared Tuesday to unveil an $85-billion jobs bill that would...
How To Read Republican Ransom Notes
What kind of people respond to an invitation with a list of demands? John Boehner and Eric Cantor have responded to Barack Obama's invitation to sit down and talk health-care reform. They answered in the form of a ransom note. Here are their demands: 1) "Assuming the...
Earth to White House: Jobs, Jobs, Jobs
Americans are angry -- Wall Street has been bailed out, and there's no sign of job growth on Main Street. We know this is important because Sarah Palin's poll tested tea party speech featured it. We know its important because that was the clear message of...
A College Test for Washington: Help Young People in Need, or Kowtow to Bank Lobbyists?
It should be, as the President once called it, a "no-brainer": Overhaul our broken system for distributing federal student loans. Stop giving banks undeserved profits for administering these loans (an estimated $80 billion over ten years), since they take no risk and...
Doubling Exports
In the State of the Union speech President Obama set a goal of doubling American exports by 2015. The Commerce Department is launching a National Export Initiative to work on getting this done. The National Export Initiative is focused on three key areas: 1. A more...
