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Does Moving Jobs Out Of The Country Affect What People Here Get Paid?
Do laid-off workers stay where they are, or do they move to look for jobs, competing with people elsewhere, thereby lowering everyone's wages? There is a simple way to check.
Progressive Breakfast
Burning Issues: The Arms Trade As A Foreign Policy Tool The next president should end the practice of recent presidents of using arms sales as an instrument of foreign policy, says William Hartung, director of the arms and security project at the Center for...
How We Must Face The Rise Of The Radical Right
What we should have learned from the 1930s is that the first responsibility of anyone who seeks to lead a democracy should be to make sure that democratic governance provides economic justice and economic security.
New Rules On Corporate Secrecy Have Glaring Loopholes
Several watchdog groups note that the Obama administration's proposed rules on disclosure of the people behind now-secret shell companies won't deal with existing companies, and offer a road map for evasion.
Conservative Solution For Puerto Ricans In Pain Is More Pain
House Republicans proposed addressing Puerto Rico's debt crisis by cutting the pensions of retirees and cutting the pay of low-wage workers – to protect wealthy bondholders who gambled on the island's finances.
Can Trump Really Win Ohio, Florida and Pennsylvania?
Democrats should not be complacent about the threat of Donald Trump, but neither should they revert to panic at the sight of a single poll. Always beware of outliers.
Burning Issues: The Arms Trade As A Foreign Policy Tool
We should challenge the practice of recent presidents, including President Obama, of using arms sales to further foreign policy interests, says William Hartung of the Center for International Policy in this Burning Issues video.
Progressive Breakfast
Trump Hides Tax Returns Trump won't release tax returns. AP: "... the billionaire businessman ... does not expect to release his tax returns before the November election. 'There's nothing to learn from them,' Trump told The Associated Press in an interview Tuesday....
Bernie Takes West Virginia
Bernie Sanders won West Virginia big last night. Even in the face of a mainstream media essentially declaring the race over, voters in the West Virginia Democratic primary chose Sanders -- and sent a message to Democrats.
Questionable Assumptions Behind Critiques of Sanders' Economic Plan
Two reports reinforce one of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's chief attack lines against competitor Bernie Sanders: that his "numbers don't add up" and that he is making promises "that cannot be kept."
