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Progressive Breakfast - 2/8/2010
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. New Rules Needed So Senate Can...
Shelby Can Haz Pork!
Colorado Springs: Conservatism's Shining City
If you've ever wondered where conservative economic policies like permanent tax cuts for the wealthy, slashed social services and government spending are supposed to lead us, look no further than Colorado Springs. David Sirota's description of what's happening to that...
Did We Get 402,000 New Jobs This Month? No. Pass A Real Jobs Bill.
Yesterday I noted that we 402,000 new jobs a month, for three years if we are to simply return to the level of employment we had before the recession. The latest monthly employment report showed a slight dip in the unemployment rate and underemployment rate, but also...
Senator Shelby's "Holds" Show Need For National Industrial Policy
Senator Shelby is placing "holds" (filibusters) on ALL OF the President's nominees, all by himself Richard Shelby puts hold on President Obama's nominees Shelby is frustrated over the Pentagon’s bidding process for air-to-air refueling tankers, which could lead to the...
Progressive Breakfast - 2/5/2010
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. Senate Shoots For Bipartisan Jobs...
Republican Leaders To Banks: Buy Us
Republican leaders -- led by the perpetually tanned John Boehner, House Republican leader, and his whip Eric Cantor -- are looking to sell themeselves to big bankers angry about financial reform. Cantor says: a lot of bankers who supported Obama are feeling "buyers'...
Danger: Falling Middle Class
Jack Cafferty at CNN this week
Getting Places, Creating Jobs
Two items from my inbox: 1. The Economic Policy Institute has a new report detailing the positive impacts of transportation infrastructure spending. A $34.3 billion jobs package will create approximately 480,000 direct and indirect jobs. The report includes...
Subsidies for Big Banks or College for Kids: WIll Senate Blow This?
The president rightly calls it a "no brainer." Direct lending to college students that saves $90 billion in excess subsidies to big banks and uses it to pay for college grants for poor kids and tax breaks for working families to help pay for tuition. This isn't...
