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Despite Some Good Economic News, The Status Quo Is Not Enough
Should Democrats present themselves as fighters for a transformative economic vision, or as skilled managers restoring and maintaining the status quo of the last several decades? The question came up again last week.
Trump’s Economic "Fixes" for Women Mean the Fix Is In
Trump’s so-called economic fixes for the nation’s majority – women – are woefully lacking. His proposal to slash the top tax rate would definitely benefit high income women earning more than $413,350. But what of their low-wage sisters?
Wingnut Week In Review: Invasion of the Clinton Body Doubles
After Hillary Clinton went a bit wobbly at the 9/11 memorial, the internet went off the deep end with speculation about her health, and whether she’s even the real Hillary Clinton.
Sandbagging Customers for Fun and Profit
Wells Fargo has just been hit with the biggest banking consumer fraud penalty ever. Yet the bank’s execs are walking out the door with multiple millions in bonuses. Can we stop them?
If You Liked the Bush Economy, You'll Love Trump's Economy
President George W. Bush tried to grow the economy by giving corporations and the wealthy lower taxes and less regulation, and sparked a global economic meltdown. Trump would do it all over again.
Progressive Breakfast
Trump Economic Plan Right-Wing Rehash Trump reveals new economic plan, with "few details." NYT: "...Trump largely reiterated a broad economic vision he outlined in Detroit last month, vowing to slash taxes on business and scale back federal regulations ... He partly...
Stiglitz Speaks: Globalization's Grand Failure, Apple & Bad Trade Deals
Joseph Stiglitz discusses tensions between globalization and democracy, and what the euro experiment tells us about the need to resist bad trade deals like the TPP and bad tax deals that favor big corporations like Apple.
Anti-Pipeline Movement Gathers Steam
Thousands of Native Americans at Standing Rock in North Dakota are protesting a pipeline project that puts their water supply at risk, threatens to plow up their sacred sites, and would worsen climate change.
Progressive Breakfast
Campaign Battle Over Child Care NYT compares child care plans: "He proposed requiring employers to give six weeks of maternity leave ... New mothers would be paid the same amounts they would collect in unemployment benefits if they had been laid off, which is usually...
Is Donald Trump The Charter School Industry's Worst Nightmare?
Presidential candidate Donald Trump's full-throated support for school choice is the ill-conceived, grandiose, and politically polarizing gesture that many charter school proponents feared most.
