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Katrina and Conservative Failure, Ten Years Later
Ten years later, the Bush administration's failed response to Hurricane Katrina is a heartrending example of conservatism's most devastating failure, and its most catastrophic success.
Trump Argues For Huge Corporate Tax Giveaway, Low Minimum Wage
Companies that did not use this tax dodge have already paid their taxes. Letting these multinational corporations off would reward the multinationals for dodging, and give them a tremendous advantage over companies that paid their taxes.
China Protects its Workers; America Doesn’t Bother
China lowered the value of its currency on three consecutive days last week, for a total of 4.4 percent, the largest decline in two decades, raising the question of when the United States is going to stop ignoring currency manipulation.
Progressive Breakfast
Trump Immigration Plan Bashed Immigration experts trash Trumps plan. The Hill: "Douglas Holtz-Eakin, the head of the conservative American Action Forum, said ... it would cost anywhere from $400 billion to $600 billion to detain, process and deport every undocumented...
Bernie Sanders Proposes To Boost Worker-Ownership Of Companies
What happens if a business is owned and run by the people who work there, and not by some distant, already-wealthy investors? Worker co-ops are businesses owned and operated by the people who work at the company.
Why Republicans Won't Nominate Their Governors To Be President
Republicans used to brag about their "deep bench" of governors, diligently solving problems in contrast to the dysfunction happening in Washington. No more. They've been eclipsed by Trump, Carson and Fiorina.
Sen. Brown Blocking Trade Nominee Over TPP Secrecy
Legislators are busy people and must travel. Requiring them to be present while staffers who are versed in trade legalese examine the text of TPP is a way of keeping legislators and their staff from knowing what is in the agreement.
The Fraud of the New “Family-Friendly” Work
Employers treat replaceable workers as costs to be cut, not as assets to be developed. Replaceable workers almost never get paid family leave, they get a few paid sick days, and barely any vacation time.
Progressive Breakfast
Trump Plan Attacks Immigration Donald Trump issues first position paper on immigration. NYT: "[Trump] called for a wall to be built along the southern border [funded] largely through increasing fees on border movement between the United States and Mexico ... Mr....
This Symphony Sounds Like a Wall Street Scheme
"Symphony" is a chat system that claims it would would prevent government spying for Wall Street. This is why it's important to ask exactly what that means.
