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Public-Sector Compensation Should Be a Model for the Private Sector
Most public-sector jobs are secure middle-class jobs that attract educated workers willing to work for less. Yu wouldn’t know this to read reports from the American Enterprise Institute, the Arnold Foundation, and countless others.
Enormous, Humongous $42.6 Billion October Trade Deficit Is Unbalanced
A trade deficit is a deficit in people's jobs and livelihoods. Forty straight years of trade deficits is a big part of what led to Donald Trump.
The Carrier Con: You Are Paying To Replace American Workers With Robots
1300 Carrier manufacturing jobs are still going to Mexico. And the 800 jobs staying in Indiana aren't safe, because Carrier is moving to automate much of the work, with the help of the American taxpayer.
Progressive Breakfast
Trump Transition Operates in the Dark "Trump’s Transition Team Is Dirty, and It’s Dark" reports The Nation's George Zornick: "Seventy percent of Trump’s landing team members have some corporate affiliation ... Several lobbyists are simply de-registering as lobbyists...
Families Have a Lot to Lose - and Protect - Long Before Inauguration Day
The right-wing assault on the advances our country has made in the more than 70 years since the presidency of FDR isn’t waiting for Donald Trump’s inauguration.
How We Won the ‘No’ in #NoDAPL – And What We Must Take On Next
Blocking a segment of the Dakota Access Pipeline on Native territory was a landmark victory accomplished through an unprecedented, Native-led grassroots movement. But that victory laid bare the work that remains.
Ben Carson's Opposition To Obama's Desegregation Plan Is Incoherent
The incoming HUD Secretary doesn't like President Barack Obama's plan to enforce the 1968 Fair Housing Act, even though he knows housing segregation is a problem and doesn't have any better ideas to offer.
Tar Heel Heist: How the Charter School Industry is Hijacking Public Ed
In my travels around North Carolina, I ask school board members, legal and education experts, and charter advocates to explain how a state that doesn't seem to adequately fund existing public schools.
Progressive Breakfast
New Social Security Spotlight Website Explains Program's Value Despite Trump’s promises, we now have to defend Social Security (again). The new Social Security Spotlight website (http://socialsecurityspotlight.org/) from the National Committee to Preserve Social...
How Trump's Grift Gave Government to the 0.01 Percent
Trump was always a Trojan horse for the 0.01 percent. And now he's forming a government of, by, and for the very elites he campaigned against. The ruthless few are in charge now.
