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Korea Trade Data Shows The Potential For The TPP To Do Real Damage
The Korean free trade agreement was sold with promises of jobs and increased exports. The opposite happened; the damaging trade deficit doubled. The vastly larger Trans-Pacific Partnership is being sold with the same promises.
Progressive Breakfast
Burning Issues: Economic Growth To Fight Income Inequality William Spriggs, chief economist for the AFL-CIO, in this Burning Issues segment argues that presidential candidates who emphasize closing the federal spending deficit are ignoring a more important investment...
Burning Issues: Economic Growth To Fight Income Inequality
Presidential candidates who emphasize closing the federal spending deficit are ignoring a more important investment deficit, argues William Spriggs, chief economist for the AFL-CIO, in this Burning Issues video.
Thursday Day Of Action To Support Verizon Workers – And Each Other
The Verizon worker's strike is about a lot more than just the contract between Verizon and its workers. This is about all of us and our relationships with these giant corporations.
Why Fight for $12 When $15 is Better?
The Supreme Court this week set a strong positive precedent for supporters of a $15 federal minimum wage. Now the Fight for $15 moves to Washington in a big way – on both its political and its commercial corridors.
Seven Things Obama Should Say From Flint
Today, President Obama is visiting Flint, Michigan for the first time since state officials revealed that the city’s water was contained with lead. Here are seven things the president should say when he speaks to the nation from Flint.
Conservatism 1980-2016, RIP
Modern American Conservatism died last night at 7 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time. It was 35 years old. Myriad diseases in conservatism's early adulthood were devastating and eventually proved to be irrevocable.
Enormous, Humongous March Trade Deficit Gives Trump Election Ammunition
The trade deficit news sets up this message: "We're not going to let ... all of these companies just think that they can move, go to another country, make their product, sell it back to us and we get only one thing, unemployment."
Progressive Breakfast
GOP Trumped Cruz quits, and the Republican Party dies, says The Atlantic's Molly Ball: "...to the anti-Trump faction, the GOP they cherished for decades as a vehicle for right-of-center ideas seemed to be no more ... But the party was broken before Trump came along,...
Bernie Sanders Wins Indiana – And The Political Debate
Bernie Sanders sweeps to victory in Wonder bread Indiana. Donald Trump blows Ted Cruz out of the Republican race. The Donald is officially the presumptive nominee of the Republican Party. And Sanders shows he still has some legs left.
