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Progressive Breakfast - 9/25/2009
The daily Progressive Breakfast serves up what progressive movement members need to know to start their day. Public Option Vote Soon in Senate Finance Committee Public option vote in Senate Finance Cmte was predicted to happen today by Sens. Rockefeller and Schumer,...
G-20 Promises: What They Mean
The G-20 Summit is wrapping up today. We can compare its performance to promises made in advance. Leaders discussed financial markets, of course, but they also made promises about jobs and work. Some highlights: “3. We must promote employment through structural...
G-20 Thursday – CAN The World Govern Itself?
A while back I read a blog post by Kim Cranston, of Transparent Democracy, Humanity's Greatest Challenge and Its Solution. That post stuck with me. Kim wrote, Climate change is not humanity's greatest challenge… Neither are pandemics, nuclear proliferation, water...
G20 Thursday -- Slow And Quiet, For Now
I took a walk across town to the United Steelworkers building, which turned out to be pretty much deserted. I walked down the main streets where the businesses were largely closed, the sidewalks were ... deserted. Except for lots of cops. The office buildings are...
G20 Thursday -- The Issues
I am in Pittsburgh for the G20. The big issues here are, Economic restructuring to prevent another collapse, including regulation of banks, with banker pay a key component of what other countries are identifying as a problem, Trade imbalances, Climate, Jobs, and Jobs....
Anti-ACORN Crusade Backfires In Irony (Updated!)
I have been restraining myself from writing a post about ACORN for some time now. It isn't that I haven't had plenty of thoughts about the faux scandal and the right-wing-media-led poo storm and subsequent political lynching that followed; I simply felt that there...
Progressive Breakfast: Triggers, Co-Ops and Medicare Advantage, Oh My!
The daily Progressive Breakfast serves up what progressive movement members need to know to start their day. Trigger and Co-Op Talk Fills The Air Pelosi soothes Blue Dogs, public option to be debated by full House. Politico: "During a breakfast with freshman Democrats...
Progressive Breakfast - 9/24/2009
The daily Progressive Breakfast serves up what progressive movement members need to know to start their day. Trigger and Co-Op Talk Fills The Air Pelosi soothes Blue Dogs, public option to be debated by full House. Politico: "During a breakfast with freshman Democrats...
G20 Pittsburgh Thursday Morning Report
I am in Pittsburgh for the G20. I am working out of the Climate Action Network Media Center located at the August Wilson Center downtown. The location of the G20 was switched to Pittsburgh in May, in order to showcase the city as revitalized by becoming an...
G-20 Facts: Accounts out of Balance
Source: BEA Today is the first day of the G-20 summit in Pittsburgh. Because the G-20 nations represent 80 percent of world trade, it makes sense to look at America’s position within it. The above chart shows our trade balances with respect to the G-20 nations; the...
