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Progressive Breakfast - 4/10/2009
Stimulus Stimulating W. Post updates on the "slowly but surely" stimulus progress: Building repairs are underway on public housing in Imboden, Ark., and Cumberland, Ill., states across the country are receiving money to weatherize the homes of low-income residents,...
Progressive Breakfast: Big Push for Public Health Plan Option
Big Push For Public Health Plan Option The Hill on grassroots efforts to secure a public health plan option, and efforts to undermine it: "liberal groups are waging a national grassroots campaign this week to demand that all Americans be given access to government-run...
Progressive Breakfast - 4/9/2009
Big Push For Public Health Plan Option The Hill on grassroots efforts to secure a public health plan option, and efforts to undermine it: "liberal groups are waging a national grassroots campaign this week to demand that all Americans be given access to government-run...
A Public Plan is Healthy Competition
Jacob Hacker’s 2006 book, The Great Risk Shift, helped politicians understand the economic pressures on the average family — including the rising costs and increasing loss of health insurance — or the threat. And in his Health Care for America plan for health reform,...
Progressive Breakfast: Military Plan Stirs Strategic Debate
Military Spending Reform Stirs Strategic Debate NYT on the fight to enact the Pentagon's proposed spending cuts: "Military analysts said the biggest lobbying campaigns would be focused on Mr. Gates’s proposed cutbacks in the F-22, the advanced stealth fighter that...
Chris Dodd: Scourge or Casualty of Wall Street?
Democratic Senator Chris Dodd is in deep trouble. According to Stuart Rothenberg, Dodd is the most vulnerable senator up for re-election in 2010 — despite the fact that he's coasted to election easily in this deep blue state since his first Senate run in 1980.
Progressive Breakfast - 4/8/2009
Military Spending Reform Stirs Strategic Debate NYT on the fight to enact the Pentagon's proposed spending cuts: "Military analysts said the biggest lobbying campaigns would be focused on Mr. Gates’s proposed cutbacks in the F-22, the advanced stealth fighter that...
The State of Opportunity
As Obama’s first 100 days draw to a close, new research shows that addressing today’s economic crisis will require reinvesting in a bedrock American principle: Opportunity. The State of Opportunity, released last week by The Opportunity Agenda, measures our nation’s...
Time to Deliver: No Turning Back, Part I
Terrance's last post heroically set out and engaged the two dominant scenarios about the American future that progressives seem to be wrestling with right now. These two scenarios might be described as: 1) Permanent Decline -- Due to Americans' native...
Progressive Breakfast: Does Military Spending Reform Go Far Enough?
Gates Seeks Military Budget Reform … But It Is Enough? NYT: "Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates announced a major reshaping of the Pentagon budget on Monday, with deep cuts in many traditional weapons systems but new billions of dollars for others, along with...
