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Obama’s Home And The Report Is Out: China Takes Us To School
President Obama is home from China and the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission today releases its 2009 report to Congress. What have we learned? That we need to pay attention because we’re getting schooled. While Obama posed for photos on the Great Wall...
Progressive Breakfast - 11/19/2009
The daily Progressive Breakfast serves up what progressive movement members need to know to start their day Senate Health Care Bill Cuts Deficit Senate bill will cut the deficit in each of the next two decades projects CBO. Bloomberg: "[The bill] cleared a major...
Inequality's Death Toll: A New Calculation
What has the potential to save more lives, the insurance reforms in the House health care bill or the higher taxes on the rich the bill imposes to pay for those reforms? This rather odd question, suggests a new study on inequality and health, really does merit asking....
The Problem With A Jobs Bill – And Everything Else
The country needs a jobs program and needs it right now. Cash for Caulkers would be a good start. A new Civilian Conservation Corps would be another. But let's not allow a jobs program to cover over the need for real changes in the structure and core principles of our...
Jobs, Jobs, Jobs -- Finally
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi gets it. No wonder she drives the wingnuts batty. With the Senate befuddled by the antics of Joe Lieberman and Max Baucus on health care and the White House Clintonistas lobbying President Obama to devote his January State of the Union...
Progressive Breakfast: Senate Health Care Bill Today (?)
The daily Progressive Breakfast serves up what progressive movement members need to know to start their day Senate Bill And CBO Estimate Today (Really, Maybe, We Think) Reid to show bill to fellow Senators at 5 PM ET. Politico: "Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid...
Progressive Breakfast - 11/18/2009
The daily Progressive Breakfast serves up what progressive movement members need to know to start their day Senate Bill And CBO Estimate Today (Really, Maybe, We Think) Reid to show bill to fellow Senators at 5 PM ET. Politico: "Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid...
The News Of Copenhagen's Death Has Been Greatly Exaggerated
The online version of Foreign Policy magazine currently blares the wildly premature headline "Who Killed Copenhagen? FP Plays The Blame Game." This apparently is what happens when a thoughtful if staid non-profit publication gets sold to a for-profit corporation -- in...
Labor Exec Shows How To Demolish Banking Industry Facade
The banking lobby, as corporate lobbies are wont to do, can build a wonderful Potemkin village of consumer delights, where a defanged government beholden to business interests smiles as unfettered CEOs and marketers rack up their profits and where only the buyer need...
Progressive Breakfast: Currency On The Table
The daily Progressive Breakfast serves up what progressive movement members need to know to start their day Obama Mentions Currency, Hu Doesn't Obama presses China on currency manipulation. Bloomberg: "'I was pleased to note the Chinese commitment, made in past...
