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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...
A Song About Trade
Buy, Buy American Pie by The Capital Steps
Roots Of Conservative Failure: Bush Called Deficits "Incredibly Positive News"
Lest we forget where the huge deficits and debt came from... On August 25, 2001, just seven months after taking office, George W. Bush learned that his budgets had already erased the previous administration's huge surplus -- that was paying off our country's debt at a...
GOP vs Mainstream America: DKos Poll Pulls the Mask off the Village Idiots
A village cannot revise village life to suit the village idiot. -- Frank Schaeffer On Tuesday, the Daily Kos published a new Research 2000 study showing the current state of belief in the GOP. Though the results aren't anything new -- indeed, the study just puts hard...
We Need 402,000 Jobs A Month. Does The Senate Get It?
Republicans First Slime, Then Maneuver to Block Labor Board Nominee
Mike Hall on our AFL-CIO Now Blog staff wrote about the latest Republican maneuvering to kill a qualified nominee for the nation's Labor Board and I want to share it with you. Republican Senate leaders are so frightened that a member of the National Labor Relations...
The Stupid Party
The GOP: Grand, Old and Preposterous The GOP is unable and unwilling to have a serious conversation with Americans about the fix we are in. Instead the party's leaders posture and pose, as practiced as a Gregorian chorus in chanting their poll tested messaging that...
Time For The Senate To Act On Jobs
We expect January’s unemployment numbers, to be released Friday, to show that while Wall Street bankers continue to thrive, American workers continue to suffer under a deep recession. The numbers should serve as a stark reminder to Congress that the time to act...
Progressive Breakfast: Call-In Blitz To Defeat Middle-Class Health Tax
The daily Progressive Breakfast serves up what progressive movement members need to know to start their day. Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission Grills Banks Today OurFuture.org's Les Leopold profiles the witnesses: "Lloyd 'doing God’s work' Blankfein … Jamie...
