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A Southern California District Resists Bad Education Policy
Donald Trump and Betsy DeVos say public schools are a failed idea and we need other options. But a school district in Southern California is showing that given sufficient resources and supports, public schools can get the job done.
Progressive Breakfast
Tell Your Senators to VOTE NO! Today and Save Health Care Senate is voting today to health care repeal after the bill collapsed last week. Tens of millions of us will lose our health care. Call your senators: Tell them to VOTE NO! Protect Medicaid and health care for...
If Hell Had a Budget: The GOP Breaks the Ten Commandments
If hell had a fiscal policy, it would look a lot like the House GOP budget. It's a wish list for millionaires, billionaires, and corporate special interests. It also breaks most of the Ten Commandments, which is more than a little ironic.
Progressive Breakfast
Dems Pitch 'A Better Deal' Democrats launch economic agenda ahead of 2018 campaign. Politico: "Democratic leaders in the House and Senate will unveil a broad economic agenda Monday, hoping to unite the disparate wings of their caucuses and win back working-class...
It’s (Loan) Shark Week: Families are Biting Back!
The most dangerous predators this year aren’t on TV or at beaches – they're the financial-industry sharks menacing families with their support of the CHOICE Act in Congress.
Progressive Breakfast
OMB Promotes Military Spending, Civilian Cutbacks OMB's Mulvaney tells civilian agencies to stop spending. AlterNet: "The Trump budget for fiscal 2018, which begins in less than three months, proposed a $54 billion increase in what is already the world’s largest...
On the CFPB’s Birthday, Stand Against Sharks
The six-year anniversary of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, created after a Wall Street crime wave led to the 2008 financial crisis, is a day to celebrate and a day to fight.
Budget Austerity Treats Public-School Parents Like Criminals
In the current environment of forced scarcity, public-school parents are not only treated like criminals in education budget battles, they end up picking up more of the cost of this public service, too.
Progressive Breakfast
McCain Diagnosed With Brain Cancer AZ Sen. McCain has brain cancer. CNN: "Sen. John McCain is suffering from a gliobastoma tumor, an aggressive form of cancer... The Arizona senator's absence from Washington in recent days has come at a politically inopportune time...
A New NAFTA Must Help, Not Hurt, Workers
Substantial progress must be made for workers in a renegotiated NAFTA. A goal of "do no harm” is grossly inadequate for the administration that promised to cure the injury that international trade inflicted on America's workers.
