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Progressive Breakfast: No Place Like Home

Obama Housing Plan To Be Announced Today NYT's David Leonhardt previews: …the key to understanding that plan will be remembering that there are two different groups of homeowners who are at risk of foreclosure. The first group is made up of people who cannot...

Progressive Breakfast - 2/18/2009

Obama Housing Plan To Be Announced Today NYT's David Leonhardt previews: ...the key to understanding that plan will be remembering that there are two different groups of homeowners who are at risk of foreclosure. The first group is made up of people who cannot afford...

“Republicants” Deny The Sky Is Falling

The sky is falling. For the average Working Joe or Jane in America, it is anyway. Unemployment is at 7.6 percent and rising. The Economic Policy Institute estimates that there are 4.1 job seekers now for every opening. The mortgage delinquency rate set another record...

Progressive Breakfast: Paradigm Shift

Economic Recovery Plan Becomes Law Today W. Post pinpoints how the new law begins to change America: The economic stimulus package dramatically ramps up spending for a broad array of social programs for needy Americans in a way not seen since the launch of the Great...

Progressive Breakfast - 2/17/2009

Economic Recovery Plan Becomes Law Today W. Post pinpoints how the new law begins to change America: The economic stimulus package dramatically ramps up spending for a broad array of social programs for needy Americans in a way not seen since the launch of the Great...

A-Rod and Inequality: A Lesson Worth Learning

Huge rewards for 'talented' people are supposed to leave all our lives much better than before. But they don't — not in sports or any of the rest of life either. Everything you really need to know about life, a fun best-seller posited a few years back, you learn...

What "Only A Nation Can Do"

When Sen. Judd Gregg finally decided this week that he should stay in the fold of conservative Republican obstructionists in the Senate rather than on the side of moving the country forward, it was apparent he could not bring himself to embrace the progressive vision...

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