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Message To Energy Department: U.S. Greenbacks For U.S. Green Jobs
News of the potential use of U.S. stimulus funds for a wind power project in Texas that will produce 2,000 Chinese manufacturing jobs—but a scant number of American jobs—has generated justifiable outrage, including a letter from Sen. Charles Schumer,...
Progressive Breakfast - 11/6/2009
The daily Progressive Breakfast serves up what progressive movement members need to know to start their day. BREAKING NEWS: Unemployment Breaks 10%, Though Pace of Job Loss Continues To Slow. Labor Dept. release: "The unemployment rate rose from 9.8 to 10.2 percent in...
Getting Serious With China -- New Pipe Tariff
The Obama administration is taking steps to begin rebalancing trade with China -- and creating JOBS. In this case it looks like China has been "dumping" steel pipes --selling at prices that are below market -- to capture business away from American companies, causing...
CBO Score? Check. Bill Online For 72 Hours? Check. No Excuses To Vote Against House Healthcare Bill.
The House is expected to vote on comprehensive health care reform Saturday. And conservatives have no excuse for voting against it. Their main concerns have been addressed. Conservatives have continually complained that committee votes occurred without full cost...
Boxer Avoids The Baucus Trap
Today, Sen. Barbara Boxer rammed through the Environment and Public Works Committee her version of clean energy jobs and climate protection legislation without any amendments, in order to circumvent the Republican boycott of the committee proceedings. There's no way...
Green Shoots. For Whom?
Today’s “Productivity and Costs” data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics contain what looks like good news. Productivity increased at a 9.5 percent annual rate during the third quarter of 2009, the largest gain since 2003. The Associated Press called it “sizzling.”...
Don't Know or Don't Care?
House Republicans have presented a health care reform "plan" that doesn't fix our broken health care system (but might make it worse), and (according to the CBO) doesn't do much to fix the deficit conservatives say t
Obama's First Year: It Ain't No Crystal Staircase
Well, son, I'll tell you: Life for me ain't been no crystal stair. It's had tacks in it, And splinters, And boards torn up, And places with no carpet on the floor -- Bare. But all the time I'se been a-climbin' on, And reachin' landin's, And turnin' corners......
Progressive Breakfast: Boxer Blows Past GOP Boycott
The daily Progressive Breakfast serves up what progressive movement members need to know to start their day. Boxer Blows Past Boycott, As Tripartisan Trio Works With WH BREAKING THIS AM: Sen. Boxer's Environment and Public Works Committee passes clean energy jobs and...
Progressive Breakfast - 11/5/2009
The daily Progressive Breakfast serves up what progressive movement members need to know to start their day. Boxer Blows Past Boycott, As Tripartisan Trio Works With WH BREAKING THIS AM: Sen. Boxer's Environment and Public Works Committee passes clean energy jobs and...
