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Transportation Bill Expected To Pass Congress Congress strikes deal for 5-year transportation bill. The Hill: "The measure calls for spending approximately $205 billion on highways and $48 billion on transit projects over the next five years. It also reauthorizes the...
Obama Makes The Green Jobs Connection In Paris. Is India Listening?
While Obama has championed the "green jobs" cause since his first day in the Oval Office, his primary audience this time wasn't recalcitrant Republicans. It was fossil fuel hungry nation of India.
Business Group Launches Anti-TPP Ad Campaign
The group's print ads will appear in Politico, The Hill, and Roll Call and are intended to drive awareness of the lack of enforceable currency provisions in the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
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Hillary Goes "Modest" On Infrastructure Hillary Clinton offers more detail to her infrastructure plan. NYT: "The plan would increase federal funding for infrastructure by $275 billion, with $250 billion from direct public investment and $25 billion to create a...
How The Clinton and Sanders Infrastructure Plans Measure Up
Clinton's $275 billion infrastructure plan released Monday offers modest spending and contains few specifics. Contrast that with candidate Bernie Sanders, who has proposed a highly detailed, $1 trillion plan.
One Woman's $400,000 Student Debt And What We Should Do About It
A Thanksgiving weekend story is framed as a story of "how the federal government has become the biggest, nicest and meanest student lender in the world." It actually makes the case for debt-free college and debt forgiveness.
Why Hate Speech by Presidential Candidates is Despicable
A small number of angry, deranged people inevitably will vent their rage at groups they find threatening. Some will do so violently. But this doesn’t absolve politicians who have been fueling such hatefulness.
Bad Medicine: Pfizer's Offshore Tax Trick Just Latest of Many Scandals
Pfizer doesn't play pfair. The recent announcement that it would renounce its American identity and become an Irish company -- thereby dodging billions of dollars in taxes -- is the latest in a string of shady deals and sleazy behavior.
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Obama Jumpstarts Paris Climate Summit Obama announces international commitment to fund clean energy. The Hill: "President Obama and 19 world leaders are committed to double the amount of money they put into clean energy research and development ... The commitment...
Hope For The Climate Lives In Paris
Are we prepared to build on this initial agreement, and push our country and others to demand more greenhouse gas cuts until the crisis is behind us? Get ready to celebrate, and get ready to fight for deeper cuts the next day.
