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The Power of the Wage Issue
CQPolitics.com today highlights new research from the Ballot Initiative Strategy Center, finding that minimum wage initiatives in five states significantly boosted voter turnout: Voter motivation and reported interest in the election was disproportionately high among...
Employer-Based Health Care: The Denouement
NPR's Morning Edition aired a piece earlier this week about a burgeoning trend: corporations giving money to unions and handing off the responsibility of providing health care. With costs skyrocketing, these companies believe paying a lump sum now is better than being...
Rabid Fox Gets Bitten Again
Prolific and incisive filmmaker Robert Greenwald today launched the FoxAttacks website and unveiled an online video exposing Fox News's efforts to smear Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama as he is being introduced to voters nationwide. For Greenwald,...
W. Post Crusade Against Fair Drug Prices - Part 3
Most of the media saw today's report from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and concluded the headline was that overall health care spending continues to rise. Not the Washington Post. It's headline? "Medicare Benefit Appears to Slow Spending Growth on...
Who Will Call Europe's Bluff?
The NY Times reports today that the European Union will cut greenhouse gas emissions 30% by 2020, if the US will too. Obviously, the EU knows that President Bush won't bite, and if you read between the lines of the NYT piece, it would seem the offer is a way to gloss...
Grassley Threatens To Kill Wage Raise
Roll Call reports today: Senate Finance ranking member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) has warned that he may block a House-Senate conference on the minimum-wage bill unless he is assured his Democratic colleagues will join him in demanding inclusion of a sizable tax-cut...
Where The Health Care Debate Is Going
The following was written by Campaign for America's Future Co-Director Roger Hickey and Online Editor Bill Scher The health care debate has leapt forward in the last few weeks. After the bold health care plan from John Edwards, and the new business-labor coalition...
Another Year, Another Record Trade Deficit
The trade deficit ballooned to $764 billion in 2006, a new record shortfall. The White House shrugged its shoulders. From the W. Post: "Trade is good for America," [White House spokesman Tony] Fratto said. "There are dislocations for people when you trade. A factory...
Minimum Wage Compromise In Sight
The House Ways & Means Committee yesterday cleared a bill with less than $2 billion in business tax breaks, as part of a plan to resolve differences in the House and Senate minimum wage bills. While I noted earlier that the House is passing the tax bill separately...
Bush's Medicare Drug Program. It Ain't Working.
Medicare's prescription drug benefit, it's working -- Current TV ad from Big Pharma [Rep. Henry] Waxman, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, laid out his health oversight priorities for the year at a Feb. 9 hearing, drawing a bull’s-eye on...
