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What's Actually In The Bill?
Last month, Institute for America's Future unveiled the $900 billion, two-year Main Street Recovery Program, backed by 2,000 economists, labor leaders, progressive organization and citizens. Since then, Congress is working on it's economic recovery plan, currently at...
Progressive Breakfast: Conservatives Delay and Distort While Jobs Vanish
Jobs Rapidly Vanishing, Action Needed Now W. Post assessment of the economy is stark: "The nation's employers, including some of its largest and most sturdy, announced plans yesterday to slash more than 55,000 jobs, a staggering one-day toll that highlighted how...
Progressive Breakfast - 1/27/2009
Jobs Rapidly Vanishing, Action Needed Now W. Post assessment of the economy is stark: "The nation's employers, including some of its largest and most sturdy, announced plans yesterday to slash more than 55,000 jobs, a staggering one-day toll that highlighted how...
The Fierce Urgency of Now On Economic Recovery
The Campaign for America's Future is joining with our allies at Americans United for Change in asking you to flood congressional offices today and Tuesday with calls for immediate action on the economic recovery package scheduled for a House vote this week. The number...
Progressive Breakfast: Who Won In November?
Dems Stand Firm On Econ Recovery, GOP Opposition Hardens On NBC's Meet The Press, Obama econ advisor Larry Summers addresses criticism that too little will be spent quickly, noting most will be spent quickly, but long-term investments are crucial too: The president...
Have You 'Hurd'? Greed Still Living Large
We all know about the greed and grasping at Wall Street's failed giants. But the greed at 'successful' companies elsewhere in America is getting a free pass. President Barack Obama, in the opening moments of his eagerly awaited administration, last week reminded an...
Progressive Breakfast - 1/26/2009
Dems Stand Firm On Econ Recovery, GOP Opposition Hardens On NBC's Meet The Press, Obama econ advisor Larry Summers addresses criticism that too little will be spent quickly, noting most will be spent quickly, but long-term investments are crucial too: The president...
CBO Stimulus "Report" Didn't Exist
It turns out reports that the Congressional Budget Office had found that much of the stimulus package to be voted on in the House in a few days would not be spent until after 2011 were incorrect. Ryan Grim at The Huffington Post reported late Friday: The nonpartisan...
Stimulate The Economy By Stimulating Saving? One Progressive's Idea
While conservatives offer tax cuts as an all-purpose elixir, whether they make sense or not, the truth is that our tax code is out of whack and we should be thinking about progressive reforms. Laura Kalick, a veteran tax attorney based in Washington, has been thinking...
Conservative Plan Isn't About "Recovery"
The missive that House conservatives issued early Friday may be called an "economic recovery plan," but it is as threadbare as the big discount goods store that went belly-up in my neighborhood a few weeks ago and is now in the final days of bankruptcy liquidation....
