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Revenge Of The Plastic
A bill that will clamp down on some of the most egregious practices of credit card companies is rushing toward final passage in the Senate, and the industry—and its conservative buddies—are gearing up for retaliation. For example, one conservative group has already...
Progressive Breakfast: New Fuel-Efficiency Standard, May Boost Climate Bill
Credit Card Bill Expected To Pass Today Politico reports Senate expected to pass credit card reform bill today as President demands final bill by Friday. Banks respond, reports NYT, by "going after those people with sterling credit." New Fuel-Efficiency Standard, May...
Progressive Breakfast - 5/19/2009
Credit Card Bill Expected To Pass Today Politico reports Senate expected to pass credit card reform bill today as President demands final bill by Friday. Banks respond, reports NYT, by "going after those people with sterling credit." New Fuel-Efficiency Standard, May...
I Pledge to Buy a Made-in-U.S. Car
I pledge that soon I will buy a new, fuel-efficient car—built in America by United Auto Workers members. I'm asking YOU to take this pledge with me and get others to do so, too. If enough Americans take this pledge—and pass it on—we can revive our country's auto and...
Progressive Breakfast: Climate Bill Moves To Mark-Up
Climate Bill Moves To Mark-Up Today "The House Energy and Commerce Committee planned to begin work [today] on legislation that, for the first time, would limit the emissions blamed for global warming … The House Energy committee wants to complete work and vote...
Progressive Breakfast - 5/18/2009
Climate Bill Moves To Mark-Up Today "The House Energy and Commerce Committee planned to begin work [today] on legislation that, for the first time, would limit the emissions blamed for global warming ... The House Energy committee wants to complete work and vote on...
Remembering When Citigroup 'Cared' about Inequality
Citi analysts spent two years obsessing over luxury consumption by the rich. Last week, the ultimate symbol of that consumption — the fine art bubble — finally popped. Back a year ago, not long after Bear Stearns bit the Wall Street dust, buyers and sellers at New...
390 Years Minus 100 Days ... And On, Pt. 5 of 5
Coming to terms with race and resolving racial disparity in America feels like an insurmountable, unfinished task, because it is unfinished. The work was started and abandoned, started and abandoned many times by generations before us. But it’s only...
Big Business Likes Arbitration--If It Can Control the Process
Opponents of the Employee Free Choice Act, desperate in their
Progressive Breakfast: Public Option Takes Shape
House Begins To Shape Public Plan Option Bloomberg reports on a draft House health care plan: U.S. House Democrats are weighing … a mandate that employers provide coverage to all full- time workers or pay a percentage of their payroll to the Treasury. Also...
