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Progressive Breakfast: Deal Struck To Modify Insurance Tax
The daily Progressive Breakfast serves up what progressive movement members need to know to start their day Union Leaders Back Tax Deal McClatchy describes the deal struck between the White House, congressional leaders and union leaders to modify high-premium...
Progressive Breakfast: Massachusetts Madness
Health Care Reform Holds Breath For Mass. Vote… NYT reports Dem leaders considering passing Senate bill in House without changes, if Senate Dems "waver" after Mass. Senate election today: "'“Let’s remove all doubt,' [Speaker Pelosi] added. 'We will have health...
Cap-and-Trade and Cap-and-Dividend Can Be Friends!
One thing I learned watching the climate debate last year is: don't pick a fight with Joe Romm. For example, the Freakonomics boys had their reputation permanently sullied by the brilliant policy analysis and Climate Progress blogger after daring to play loose with...
Progressive Breakfast - 2/4/2010
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. How Small Is The Senate Jobs Bill?...
Just This One Conservative Failure Cost 1.4 Million Jobs
Just one of the many conservative failures cost 1.4 million jobs, all by itself. And never mind how much borrowing it caused. In Macroeconomic effects of Chinese mercantilism, Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman took a look at how many jobs have been lost...
Not As They Do: Conservatives and the Deficit, Pt. 1
Listening to conservatives squawk about deficits is a bit like taking parenting and/or relationship advice from Medea, the Gosselins or "Octomom." At best, they serve as an example of what not to do. As it is with children, so it is with conservatives and deficits....
Taking Elections Back From the Corporations and the Constitution Back from the Gang of Five
Rep. Donna Edwards (D-Md) and Rep. John Conyers (D-Mi) and chair of the House Judiciary Committee today introduced an amendment to the Constitution to overturn the Supreme Court's decision in Citizen's United that gave corporations the right to spend unlimited funds...
For A Real Jobs Bill, Senate Needs To Hear From You NOW
The Senate leadership appears to be on the verge of proposing a jobs package significantly smaller than the $154B bill that has cleared the House, even though everybody agrees even the House bill is not big enough to reverse the 7 million jobs already lost in the...
Cruz, Paul and Rubio Try To Discuss Inequality. Wackiness Ensues.
A discussion with Ted Cruz, Rand Paul and Marco Rubio shows in stark relief how Republicans are trying, and failing, to be seen as the party of the middle class.
Progressive Breakfast - 2/3/2010
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 Jobs Package Coming Tomorrow...
