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Welfare Reform's Broken Promises Exposed Again
One of the remarkably few efforts to examine how welfare recipients actually fare once they get back into the workforce uncovers the inconvenient truth behind right-wing rhetoric about aid to low-income people.
Wingnut Week In Review: Ugly Americans
In the worst of times, we need leaders who call us to heed “the better angels of our nature.” In the wake of the terrorist attacks in Paris, right-wing media, officeholders, and candidates have instead embodied the term “ugly American.”
Shouldn't Social Security Recipients Get A CEO-Sized Raise?
Next year Social Security recipients get a zero cost-of-living-allowance, but CEOs just got a taxpayer-subsidized raise. Sen. Elizabeth Warren proposes matching that raise for seniors. Which side is your representative on?
Is Senate Cafeteria Contractor Still Violating Labor Rules?
Even after 34 senators wrote a letter to the (foreign-owned) contractor that operates the outsourced Senate cafeteria, the workers had to file another labor rights complaint.
Progressive Breakfast
Sanders Makes His Case Sen. Sanders defines and defends democratic socialism. The Atlantic: "...Sanders praised Democratic presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson for wielding the power of the government to create jobs and lift Americans out of poverty ......
Sanders' Socialism Speech: America Is For All Of Us, Not Just Wealthy
Public polling shows that the things Sanders talked about in his speech are things that most Americans agree with and approve of. They are, as Sanders worded it, "wildly popular."
What Education Policy Makers Can Learn From A ‘Failing School’
How can someone make a decision about a school they’ve never even walked into? That question is at the heart of Kristina Rizga’s terrific new book "Mission High," a story about how schools succeed despite bad policies.
Senate Republicans Lose Big In Climate Vote
Six years ago, Democrats broke ranks with Obama on capping carbon. Today, Democrats are holding firm. Republicans have proven unable to win in the court of public opinion.
The Perils of Circus Politics
We’re going to need an especially wise and able leader as president. Yet our process for choosing that person is a circus, and several leading candidates are clowns. How have we come to this?
Yet our process for c
Progressive Breakfast
Dueling Democratic Speeches Sanders delivers speech on democratic socialism today at 2 PM ET. NYT: "...Mr. Sanders plans to position himself as the political heir to one of the Democratic Party’s great heroes, F.D.R ... building on his descriptions of the...
