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A New Economy from Old Roots?
How do we build a new economy out of the collapse of the old economy? How do we start fresh to begin creating jobs again, while building in economic and environmental sustainability, as well as workplaces that respect human needs and rights? How do we change things so...
Boxer-Kerry Climate Bill: A Second Chance For Progressives
The new Boxer-Kerry Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act gives progressives a second chance to influence climate legislation, if we learn the right lessons from both the legislative process for the House climate bill and the ongoing health care debate. Many...
Obama and China: Vandalism or Vision?
"Vandalism" screams the cover of The Economist, depicting President Obama leaving an ice pick in the tire of free trade. (No racial overtones there; after all, as the president explained, he was black before he was elected.) When the president imposed...
Progressive Breakfast - 9/30/2009
The daily Progressive Breakfast serves up what progressive movement members need to know to start their day. Public Option Marches On After Senate Finance Vote Sen. Schumer tells Rachel Maddow: "not a single [moderate Democrat] has closed the door" on public option....
Baucus Votes Against Public Option Because It Can't Get 60 Votes, Yet Schumer Says It Can
The Senate Finance Committee, as expected, minutes ago voted to reject two separate version of a public health insurance option. The three Democrats voting to reject both, including the weaker version that did not drive down costs by pegging reimbursements to Medicare...
Capitalists On Flim
Tonight, I'm going to the Washington, DC premiere of Micheal Moore's new movie, Capitalism: A Love Story. I know there are people who can't stand Moore, but I've seen just about all of his movies.
Right-Wing Plan To "Take Back America": Obama Is Hitler!!
For six years the Campaign for America's Future organized the annual Take Back America conference, the largest annual gathering of progressives in the country. At the conference progressives came together to discuss how to improve the country, through goals like...
Progressive Breakfast - 9/29/2009
The daily Progressive Breakfast serves up what progressive movement members need to know to start their day. Senate Finance Committee Vote on Public Option Expected Today C-Span covering Senate Finance debate and vote today. Public option backers not expecting to win...
It Doesn't Matter What Harry Reid Does On Public Option
D-Day is tired of the kabuki dance of leaking the end of the public option then denying it publicly, the latest incarnation coming from the Senate Majority Leader's office: Harry Reid pulled the yo-yo trick today. First some anonymous staffers were quoted in the NYT...
GDP: Taking Aim at the Stat that Bamboozles
A conservative world leader and two world-famous economists who challenge conservative world leaders have joined up to call for a totally new global economic yardstick. And they want that yardstick to measure inequality. Sometime early this fall, new statistics are...
