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61% "Uneasy" About Trump and International Trade
A new The Economist/YouGov poll asked "Are you confident or uneasy about the following presidential candidates’ ability to deal wisely with international trade?" The numbers might surprise you.
Enormous, Humongous May Trade Deficit Helps Trump
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) opens up tariff-free trade with countries like Vietnam, which can only increase the "giant sucking sound" of U.S. job loss and increasing trade deficits.
Bernie-mentum Nudges Clinton Forward On Debt-Free College
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton announces changes to her college affordability plan that closely tracks a key component of the platform challenger Bernie Sanders put forward in his race for the Democratic nomination.
Progressive Breakfast
Sanders Presses On Platform Sanders steps up anti-TPP push before platform meeting. Bloomberg: "'The Democrats must go on record in opposition to holding a vote on the TPP,' Sanders said in one of several Twitter messages Tuesday aimed at derailing the Trans-Pacific...
Inequality's Getting Worse. How Do We End This?
At the start of the Independence Day weekend, we learned that income inequality in this country became even worse last year. Economic inequality produces scars that last a lifetime – and even longer. We must act.
Open Letter to Donald Trump's Campaign
Your campaign does not represent the politics of Lincoln, the call of justice, or the ethics of Biblical evangelicalism. Instead, your campaign presents an extremist philosophy of hate, greed, racism, classism, and xenophobia.
Betrayed Again, This Time By Unconvincing Arguments For The TPP
President Obama’s pushing of the Trans-Pacific Partnership is recklessly irresponsible politics that benefits Donald Trump. He must be made to realize that every time he pushes TPP, he might as well be campaigning for Trump.
Billionaire Trump Claims Steelworker Status
Trump, who brags, “I am really rich,” wants to climb out of his luxury sky box and sit in the nosebleed seats with hardworking Rust-Belters who sweat over mortgage payments. It’s a joke. It’s a British royalist claiming to be a colonist.
Progressive Breakfast
Trade Issue Roils Both Parties Trump message on trade threatens Clinton, reports W. Post: "... the risk is not necessarily losing support directly to Trump but rather not inspiring enough enthusiasm among rank-and-file union workers, whose turnout and ground-level...
For Vice President: Senator Jeff Merkley
Hillary Clinton is now deciding on her running mate. Dozens of potential names are mentioned. Too often the lists omit the name of the one person most fit for the job: Senator Jeff Merkley of Oregon. Let's look at the politics.
