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Progressive Breakfast: Chrysler-UAW Deal
Chrysler-UAW Deal NYT: "Union leaders said Sunday that they had reached an agreement with Chrysler that meets federal requirements for the automaker to receive more financing. The deal includes Fiat … Neither the United Automobile Workers union nor the company...
Progressive Breakfast - 4/27/2009
Chrysler-UAW Deal NYT: "Union leaders said Sunday that they had reached an agreement with Chrysler that meets federal requirements for the automaker to receive more financing. The deal includes Fiat ... Neither the United Automobile Workers union nor the company...
In Faceoff With Banks, "The Government Has Blinked"
Economist Simon Johnson, in an interview Friday on "Bill Moyers' Journal," makes the case for why the nation needs a tough, independent inquiry into the financial crisis similar to the Pecora Commission of the 1930s. "Everyone is worried about the disproportionate...
Can't Ship Out Those Green Jobs
We're giving up Styrofoam cups here at our building in Washington, D.C. Also doing an energy audit and taking a few other steps as a start toward making our building a green one--just some of the actions the AFL-CIO announced this week, in time for Earth Day. Back in...
Progressive Breakfast: Possible Budget Deal
Possible Budget Deal With Wide-Ranging Implications CQ reports on deal to allow simple majority vote on health care and student loan reform, possibly in exchange for bipartisan commission that could fast-track Social Security and Medicare cuts: House and Senate...
Progressive Breakfast - 4/24/2009
Possible Budget Deal With Wide-Ranging Implications CQ reports on deal to allow simple majority vote on health care and student loan reform, possibly in exchange for bipartisan commission that could fast-track Social Security and Medicare cuts: House and Senate...
Senate Backs Financial Crisis Investigative Panel
Momentum toward a Pecora Commission-style inquest into the roots of the financial crisis got a boost from the Senate on Wednesday when it approved an amendment to a financial fraud bill that would authorize a select investigative committee. If the bill passes with the...
Geithner Plan: Another Subsidy For The Rich?
The Obama administration this week got a warning shot across its bow against structuring a bank resuce plan that would amount to yet another taxpayer subsidy of the wealthy. It's a shot that progressives who have the administration's ear on economic policy need to...
Overall Cost Of Living "Constant" After Capping Carbon
The first congressional hearings regarding comprehensive clean energy and climate protection legislation were held yesterday, and the most important fact mentioned did not get much traditional media attention. When Energy Secretary Steven Chu was asked by a...
Progressive Breakfast - 4/23/2009
Restoring Rules on Credit Cards Credit card crackdown bill moves. CNN/Money.com: " A key House panel on Wednesday advanced a bill to crack down on credit card interest rates and fees amid signs the Obama administration will try to toughen the bill further before it...
