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Gerard: "This President Recognizes That Jobs Are Now At The Forefront."
United Steelworkers President Leo Gerard sat down with OurFuture.org's Isaiah Poole to provide an inside view of the White House jobs summit. Watch it below. He noted that while there is great focus on quick action to deal with the current rise in unemployment, moving...
Some Jobs Taxpayers Don’t Need to Buy
Can't buy me love Everybody tells me so Can't buy me love No, no, no, no From the 1964 Lennon/McCartney song, “Can’t Buy Me Love” Maybe you can’t buy love, but you can buy a job. Franklin Delano Roosevelt did it with the Works Progress Administration during the Great...
The Necessity of the Public Option
Ezra Klein on the Washington Post recently argued that progressives should bargain away the current version of the public option in pending health care legislation in exchange for other reforms such as bigger subsidies, tougher rules on demographic discrimination and...
Bernanke: 'The Definition Of Moral Hazard'
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke employed his characteristic smoothness and conciliatory nature as he navigated the questioning at today's confirmation hearing before the Senate Banking Committee, helped by the largely gentle questioning by Democrats on the...
Progressive Breakfast: Jobs Summit & Bernanke Hearing Today
The daily Progressive Breakfast serves up what progressive movement members need to know to start their day Job Ideas Abound In Advance of Today's WH Summit House leaders looking at TARP funding for jobs. Politico: "…House Democratic leaders are floating the...
Progressive Breakfast - 12/3/2009
The daily Progressive Breakfast serves up what progressive movement members need to know to start their day Job Ideas Abound In Advance of Today's WH Summit House leaders looking at TARP funding for jobs. Politico: "...House Democratic leaders are floating the idea of...
Sanders Puts Hold on Bernanke Nomination
Senator Bernie Sanders has announced he will put a hold on the Bernanke nomination. Sanders wants the Finance Committee to hold serious hearings probing Bernanke's actions leading up to the financial collapse, and the emergency measures he took, committing literally...
Job Creation Vs. The Deficit Fearmongers
House of Representatives staffers who take the District's subway system to work are now confronted with a host of scary images as they exit the station: A forlorn Uncle Sam panhandling to pay off a $12 trillion debt; a stopwatch with the message that it would take...
Before You Appoint Ben, Audit Ben
Progressive Breakfast - 12/2/2009
The daily Progressive Breakfast serves up what progressive movement members need to know to start their day Afghan Address Receives Tepid Response Some Dems pledge to try to block plan. USA Today: "...Obama [is] facing a potential mutiny on this issue among liberal...
